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Author by Claude Fierobe
Genre : Fiction
Publisher : Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN : 2859399313
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 228 Page
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L'étude comparée des deux personnages, Vlad Tepes (Vlad l'Empaleur), qui a régné en Valachie de 1456 à 1462, et Dracula, héros noir du roman éponyme de 1897 - permet de définir la nature du rapport entre le mythe et l'histoire. Elle permet en outre d'expliquer la genèse d'un mythe littéraire dont l'irlandais Bram Stoker a fixé la forme canonique. Faire le point sur l'irlandicité de Dracula apparaît d'autant plus nécessaire que les interprétations « irlandaises » - par la mise en regard du roman et du contexte socio-culturel dans lequel il a été écrit - sont nombreuses, parfois contradictoires. L'examen du fantastique débouche sur celui de la narrativité et sur la question de la responsabilité éditoriale d'un texte déconcertant qui tend à se discréditer lui-même. De multiples circulations dessinent des réseaux sémantiques fortement structurés qui renvoient à la fois aux zones obscures de la psyché et à la réalité physique des corps. L'étude des avatars littéraires et cinématographiques de Dracula montre le progrès d'une valorisation positive du vampire, dont on admire aujourd'hui l'intelligence et les pouvoirs.

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Author by Joseph Valente
Genre : Literary Criticism
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN : 0252026969
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 200 Page
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"An ingenious reappraisal of a classic text, Dracula's Crypt presents Stoker's novel as a subtly ironic commentary on England's preoccupation with racial purity. Probing psychobiographical, political, and cultural elements of Stoker's background and milieu, Joseph Valente distinguishes Stoker's viewpoint from that of his virulently racist, hypermasculine vampire hunters, showing how the author's dual Anglo-Celtic heritage and uncertain status as an Irish parvenu among London's theatrical elite led him to espouse a progressive racial ideology at odds with the dominant Anglo-Saxon supremacism. In the light of Stoker's experience, the shabby-genteel Count Dracula can be seen as a doppelganger, an ambiguous figure who is at once the blood-conscious landed aristocrat and the bloodthirsty foreign invader."--BOOK JACKET.

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Author by Bram Stoker
Genre : Children's stories
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN : 0237524015
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 52 Page
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The 'Fast Track Classics' series presents retold, shortened versions of classic novels that are suitable for children working at Key Stage Two. The stories are retold so as to lose none of the strength and character of the originals.

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Author by Elizabeth Miller
Genre : Fiction
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781644616215
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 100 Page
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Transylvanian mystique and legendary hauntedness surround the most infamous Bram Stoker’s protagonists, forming a legacy that allows the myth to continue into modern times, maintaining a cultish following, yet broadening to a general fascination. Intrigued by evil and gore, Stoker developed a literary presence that was effortlessly translated to screen by the likes of Murnau, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and Francis Ford Coppola. Dracula became such an obsession as it embodied a taboo subject matter: the desire for blood and sex. Filled with extraordinary pictures of the Count, his literary companions, and the movie idols, this is a treasure only to be read by daylight!

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Author by Lyndon W. Joslin
Genre : Performing Arts
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN : 9781476669878
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 297 Page
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First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movies. Count Dracula is one of the most-filmed literary characters in history--but has he (or Stoker's novel) ever been filmed accurately? In its third edition, this study focuses on 18 adaptations of Dracula from 1922 to 2012, comparing them to the novel and to each other. Fidelity to the novel does not always guarantee a good movie, while some of the better films are among the more freely adapted. The Universal and Hammer sequels are searched for traces of Stoker, along with several other films that borrow from the novel. The author concludes with a brief look at four latter-day projects that are best dismissed or viewed for ironic laughs.

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Author by Douglas Brode
Genre : Performing Arts
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN : 9780810892965
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 318 Page
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A collection of essays about the portrayals of female vampires through the history of film, beginning with Carl Theodore Dreyer’s Vampyre and culminating with the Twilight series. The contributors to these essays will be primarily female writers/scholars on films that focus on the female vampire—very often lesbian and/or bisexual—and the social implications of such films.

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Author by Carol Margaret Davison
Genre : Literary Criticism
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN : 9781459721135
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 432 Page
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Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world’s leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker’s original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking." "Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible." from the Preface by Patrick McGrath

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Author by Stephen Jones
Genre : Fiction
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN : 9781849019156
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 576 Page
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How will the King of Vampires adapt to the social and technological changes brought by the twenty-first century? Could the Count's condition be cured by modern medicine? How does the mythology perpetuated by literature and movies affect the existence of a real bloodsucker? What if Dracula found himself ruler of a world controlled by vampires? Or perhaps political and ecological catastrophe will result in the Count's final destruction? This tribute to the world's greatest vampire collects together more than 200,000 words of Dracula fiction by masters of dark fantasy such as: Hugh B. Cave, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper, John Gordon, Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Roberta Lannes, Thomas Ligotti, Paul J. McAuley, Nicholas Royle, Guy N. Smith and many more. It also includes a brand new story from Charlaine Harris.

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Author by Bram Stoker
Genre : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN : UVA:X002512406
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 382 Page
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National Theatre, Washington, D.C., direction A.L. Erlanger and W.H. Rapley, business management: S.E. Cochran, Horace Liveright presents "Dracula," the vampire play, dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from Bram Stoker's world-famous novel "Dracula," staged by Ira Hards, scenes by Joseph Physioc

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Author by Roger Luckhurst
Genre : Literary Criticism
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9781108548700
Type : PDF & Epub
Views : 242 Page
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Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel's various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. This Companion will serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might generate.

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