Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Stoker, Bram"”.
-
Shadow of the Vampire: Understanding the Transformations of an Icon in Popular Culture
Once the vampire was seen as the villainous antagonist in literature and film, but over the last two centuries the character has evolved into the vigilante anti-hero. This paper analyzes the transformation of the vampire character asking, "How can it be that something that should provoke fear and …
-
"""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 …
-
Contemporary gothic literature: The need for fear
1 PDF file (iii, 80 pages)
-
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.
-
To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… to 1958, I take up works of fiction and drama by Bram Stoker, Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, revealing how various performers of the late-Victorian stage became essential to the formation of modernist aesthetics. I show that the actor's significance lay not only in her cultural …