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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Dracula"”.
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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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Creating a sound world for Dracula (Brorwning, 1931).
Creating a Sound World for Dracula (Browning, 1931) The first use of recorded sound in a feature film was in Don Juan (Crosland 1926). From 1933 onwards, rich film scoring and Foley effects were common in many films. In this context, Dracula (Browning 1931)1 belongs to the transitional period …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… period from <em>Jane Eyre</em> (1847) to <em>Dracula</em> (1897). This inquisitiveness foreshadows modern medical sleep science and immerses the reading public in a body of popular literature that subverts the concept of "normal" sleep. My dissertation explores the ways in which Victorian …
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R.M. Renfield: The Missing Link in the Degeneration of Humans into Vampires in Bram Stoker's Dracula
… 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 character R.M. …
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… not an immediate commercial success, <em>Dracula</em> has since become a seminal example of Gothic horror at the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>, leading not only to film, stage, and television adaptations, but also to literary reimaginings and a plethora of scholarship. I argue that the vampires …
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Of saints and sinners. Native resistance to Ottoman expansion in Southeastern Europe, 1443-1481: George Castriota Scanderberg and Vlad III Dracula
… in Albania and Prince Vlad III, the historic Dracula, in Wallachia. The careers of each of these men are presented individually, their motivations and goals are studied, and the reasons for their successes and failures investigated. Among the questions addressed are the causes of their …
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Analogy matching with function, flow and performance
… Analogy Computation via Unit-Language Analysis (DRACULA) framework. The steps for validation of DRACULA have been divided into two parts: 1) generation of numerical metrics with which multiple analogical generation methods may be compared and 2) case study assessments which will compare between …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century 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 century and …
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Vampires in Literature
… of pure evil 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 …
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THE LITERACIES OF LITERARY TEXTS: RHETORICAL BRIDGES BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDIES DISCIPLINES AND FIRST-YEAR WRITERS
… be presented as examples, I read Bleak House, Dracula, and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There as illustrative texts demonstrating how community membership depends on the rhetorical knowledge of literacy practices. Moving beyond the analytical, I apply my readings of Bleak …
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Objects, People, and Landscapes of Terror: Considering the Sublime through the Gothic Mode in Late 19th Century Novels
… 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 texts together by …
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Castles in the Air
… in the Air</em> is a retelling of <em>Dracula</em> that uses elements of the original Stoker text while also diverging from the story and exploring victim narratives and queer subtext. The project explores the limitations and possibilities of transformative texts, such as, essentially, …
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An Evolution of Evil: the Cycle of the Vampire
… 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 1930’s pulp …
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Unseen Horrors: The Unmade Films of Hammer
… revitalise one of its most reliable franchises – Dracula, in response to declining American interest in the company. Notably, with a project entitled Kali Devil Bride of Dracula. Chapter 5 examines the unmade project Nessie, and how it demonstrates Hammer’s shift in production strategy in the late …
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
… three neo-Victorian adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) - Tom Holland’s Supping With Panthers (1996), Leslie S. Klinger’s The New Annotated Dracula (2008) and Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt’s Dracula the Un-Dead (2009).<br/>In these works, the writers simultaneously cannibalise the original …
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Cultural Stereotypes: From Dracula's Myth to Contemporary Diasporic Productions
… exchange. Starting from an analysis of Dracula as the epitomized image of the Balkans (and of Romania, more specifically) abroad, this paper provides a comprehensive historical and (con)textual analysis of the myth, enlarged to incorporate it into the fictions of exile and to draw the …
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Through the eyes of a vampire: the effects of rhetorical context in two of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles
… 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 affected and …
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"'The Dead Travel Fast'": The Gothic Politics of Irish Literature
… The first two chapters focus on Carmilla and Dracula, specifically how LeFanu and Stoker utilize the figure of the vampire not only to allegorize their struggles with Anglo-Irish identity, but also to show how that figure represents native Irish rebellion and its destruction and also how it …
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Letteratura e identità irlandese nell'opera di Bram Stoker
… a full-rounded author, not just as the author of Dracula. Three novels and other materials have been selected for the analysis. The novels are The Snake’s Pass (1890), which is Stoker’s first and the only one to be set in Ireland; Dracula (1897), an unavoidable milestone in his literary …
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