University of Mississippi eGrove Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Theses Honors College) 2016 The volutE ion of the Vampire Other: Symbols of Difference from Folklore to Millennial Literature Kate Buckley University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis Part of the Comparative Literature Commons Recommended Citation Buckley, Kate, "The vE olution of the Vampire Other: Symbols of Difference from Folklore to Millennial Literature" (2016). Honors Theses. 504. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/504 This Undergraduate Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College (Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College) at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE EVOLUTION OF THE VAMPIRE “OTHER”: SYMBOLS OF DIFFERENCE FROM FOLKLORE TO MILLENNIAL LITERATURE by Kate Buckley A thesis submitted to the faculty of The University of Mississippi in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. Oxford May 2016 Approved by ______________________________ Advisor: Dr. Shari Hodges Holt ______________________________ Reader: Dr. Melanie Anderson ______________________________ Reader: Dr. Deborah Barker © 2016 Kate Elizabeth Buckley ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT The Evolution of the Vampire “Other”: Symbols of Difference from Folklore to Millennial Literature (Under the direction of Dr. Shari Hodges Holt) With its roots in Eastern Europe and rapidly spreading to Western society in the past few hundred years, the vampire has served as a double for humanity, with the division of self between monstrosity and the human ideal.