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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Bram"”.
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Letteratura e identità irlandese nell'opera di Bram Stoker
… interest in the recent desire of reappropriating Bram Stoker as an Irish author that can be noticed both in academia and in the wider public. In the past, Stoker was often included in anthologies of British writers without mentioning his being Irish, sometimes being even explicitly described as an …
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Bram Stoker and cultural unification: colonialism, hybridity and the gothic
… Colonialism and Nationality that occur within Bram Stoker's narratives through the representation of an ancient version of the past that actively engages with the Victorian present. This construction of the past demonstrates Stoker's political views surrounding the strengthening of a British …
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R.M. Renfield: The Missing Link in the Degeneration of Humans into Vampires in Bram Stoker's Dracula
… society, science, and literature, including Bram Stoker’s <em>Dracula. </em>Previous scholarship has pointed out the influence of contemporary degeneration and criminological theory on the vampire characters, specifically Dracula. This paper looks at how these same theories are shown in the …
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Dracula: Infection, Disease and Illness
This essay examines Bram Stoker’s Dracula and how the author carefully constructed the main antagonist, Count Dracula, one of literature’s most monstrous and notorious villain, to reflect late-nineteenth-century anxiety and fear of contagion, disease, and illness. It explores how the Count and …
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On invariant subspaces of a normal operator
… to this study by the work of Halmos, Wermer, and Bram.
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Compelled Decryption and the Right Against Self-Incrimination: Obsta Principiis
… of self-incrimination, which is termed the Boyd-Bram Analysis. Part II then examines how the Court slowly abandoned the Boyd-Bram Analysis in favor of doctrines fundamentally opposed to the right against self-incrimination, including the Act of Production Doctrine. Part II also provides a …
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.
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Through the eyes of a vampire: the effects of rhetorical context in two of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles
… of protagonist and antagonist. By comparing Bram Stoker's Dracula with Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, I have found that context affects the reader's perception of the character and that even deeply ingrained ideas, such as the evilness of vampires, can be …
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Masochism and Decadent literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan
… in Decadence (Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Bram Dijkstra and Rita Felski), and in Sacher-Masoch (Nick Mansfield, John K. Noyes, and Anita Phillips), and his influence on Decadent writers.
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… popular novels that span the nineteenth century—Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie—join then-contemporary conversations about medical reform. The novels explore the ethical ambiguities inherent in medical practice in the nineteenth …
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Objects, People, and Landscapes of Terror: Considering the Sublime through the Gothic Mode in Late 19th Century Novels
… as sublimity. In the last chapter, I investigate Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) to show how Dracula tries to assert a perverse sublimity through vampirism which must be corrected by the end of the novel for the British to restore their authority over land and body. My conclusion links the three …
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Fortuyn's Foundations of Homonationalism (Homonationalism in Dutch everyday life)
… are rarely discussed. Only research by Bram Mellink focused on the origins of Dutch homonationalism between 1980 and 1990. By analyzing the selected period, this research tries to bridge the gap between the origins of Dutch homonationalism and the full fledged Dutch homonationalism that …
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"""Forms of Some Intenser Life"": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century"
… Ford Madox Ford), H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.” This concentration of generic discontinuities not only demonstrates genre’s formal instability but also its inability to function as a symbolic solution to the real …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
… less recognition than his contemporaries such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Maturin—even though he likely influenced these later authors. Le Fanu’s novels and short stories explore the cultural zeitgeist of nineteenth-century Ireland and England in great …
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Beckett’s “no-man’s-land” : the influence of paintings on Beckett’s 1930s practice
… with painters, such as Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde and Karl Ballmer. It also explores the impact of the trip he undertook to Germany (1936-7) in relation to the the Murphy Notebooks and “Human Wishes” manuscript doodles by highlighting the impact of his exposure to Expressionist …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… myth in Britain, and the image of the Balkans in Bram Stoker's Dracula."
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Cultural Stereotypes: From Dracula's Myth to Contemporary Diasporic Productions
… Impaler's lifetime. Moving across centuries to Bram Stoker's Dracula, I pay special attention to the cultural environment that made possible the instant success of his novel. I also offer a brief survey of the main directions taken by the impressive interpretive corpus on Bram Stoker's novel, …
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Vampires in Literature
… that preyed on the innocent. Count Dracula, from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897), is an example of an evil being which belongs to the class of the “old” vampire. Religious fears and the control of the church were much of what contributed to the terrors which the old vampire conveyed. Count …
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An Evolution of Evil: the Cycle of the Vampire
… than her male counterparts but no less evil. Bram Stoker’s Dracula altered vampire fiction for decades to come. Dracula was a thing of pure evil, much like his predecessors, however he is stripped away of all humanity becoming not just a monster, but a demon in flesh. It wouldn’t be until the …
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
… of Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. These metaphorisations of a crisis for identity in the nineteenth century are reflected in the analyses of insanity by physicians such as W.A.F. Browne and Henry Maudsley, prominent cultural critics such as Arthur Hallam and Amold, and …
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