Rymer, M.

Japanese: Rymer,M.(英語表記)RymerM
Rymer, M.

...The vampires of Merimee and Gogol remained in the folk world, but with Byron's unfinished work Fragments, which was born along with M. Shelley's Frankenstein when Shelley and others competed to write horror stories on the shores of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, and John William Polidori's (1795-1821) The Vampire (1819), vampires gradually crept into the modern civil society. Rymer's (1814-1884) work Bernie the Vampire (1847) was a representative work after that, and at the end of the 19th century, the image of a female vampire appeared frequently as a "cruel beauty" or "femme fatale" metaphor for destructive sexual temptation. This is why a man-seduction or a seductress is commonly called a vamp (short for vampire). …

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Japanese:

…メリメやゴーゴリの吸血鬼は,なお土俗的世界にとどまったが,1816年夏ジュネーブ湖畔でシェリーらが恐怖物語の創作を競い合った際に,M.シェリーの《フランケンシュタイン》とともに生まれたバイロンの未完成作《断片》,およびポリドリJohn William Polidori(1795‐1821)の《吸血鬼》(1819)といった作品を伴って,吸血鬼はしだいに近代市民社会の内部に忍び寄ってくる。ライマーMalcolm Rymer(1814‐84)の作とされる《吸血鬼バーニ》(1847)はその後の代表作だが,さらに19世紀末には,破滅的な性的誘惑のメタファーたる〈残酷な美女〉〈宿命の女(ファム・ファタル)〉として,女吸血鬼のイメージがしきりに出現した。男たらし,妖婦をバンプvamp(バンパイアの略)と呼びならわすゆえんである。…

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