What a good idea, Joanna! The topic seems admirably
suited to the genre.
Care to jump-start us with a poem?
Candice
--- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> But hasn't anyone written any vampire poems? And if
> not, why not?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Vlad the Impaler
>
>
> > I'd love to see your course list, Doug--thank you,
> and
> > I wish I could take a course like yours. However,
> it
> > would be hard for me, as usual, to avoid the
> "Zizak
> > problem" of staying on text. No matter what I
> see/read
> > of the "reimaginings of _Dracula_, I eventually
> end up
> > back with Stoker and, in my Signet Classic
> edition,
> > the fine introduction by Leonard Woolf.
> >
> > Now, we'd better get back to poetry, as Joe has
> gently
> > suggested, and leave other things to the "shadow
> > world" of the back channel.
> >
> > Candice
> >
> > My great hope in making this story public is that
> it
> > will find at least one reader who will understand
> it
> > for what it actually is: a cri de coeur. To you,
> > perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.
> > (Elizabeth Kostova)
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for this, Candice; I'll keep a look out
> for
> >> it.
> >>
> >> I'm just a bit of a reader of vampire fiction (&
> a
> >> big, but not really
> >> fannish, fan of Buffy). And the last English
> course
> >> I taught, in my
> >> retirement year, was a senior course on popular
> >> culture titled
> >> Twentieth Century Vampires, which took in a long
> >> 20th century as we
> >> began with some short fiction & Dracula from the
> >> 1890s.
> >>
> >> There are a couple of novels, highly
> >> erotic/romantic, starring Mina, &
> >> Dracula's last sister, that take the original
> story
> >> further, Mina &
> >> Blood to Blood.
> >>
> >> If you'd like to see my course list, I'd be happy
> to
> >> send it b/c.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On 27-Feb-07, at 10:01 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> >>
> >> > Doug (and others who may be interested in the
> >> > narrative strategies used to recover--or
> >> recuperate-
> >> > the history as well as the new "reimaginings"
> of
> >> the
> >> > Dracula legend), there's a new novel out called
> >> > (unfortunately, in my opinion) _Fangland_ by
> John
> >> > Marks. This time the Dracula material is set in
> >> the
> >> > world of broadcast journalism, where
> "Evangeline
> >> > Harker" (presumably the daughter or
> granddaughter
> >> of
> >> > Jonathan and Mina) works as a producer. The
> novel
> >> > begins with her journals, as Stoker's does with
> >> > Harker's journal, apart from a brief foreword
> by
> >> one
> >> > James Malley that is similar to Stoker's.
> Malley
> >> > begins by saying that "the following document"
> was
> >> > "generated in the spirit of the 9-11 Commission
> >> > Report," which gives you some idea of its
> >> deliberately
> >> > contemporary basis. Again, there are several
> >> > speakers/writers competing for the "I"
> position.
> >> > "James Malley" also says in his foreword that
> the
> >> book
> >> > is "an heir to the great novels of the realism
> of
> >> the
> >> > nineteenth century, a Tolstoyan account of
> >> calamity."
> >> >
> >> > That's all I can tell you about _Fangland_,
> which
> >> I
> >> > acquired at my local library just today. (I
> also
> >> > ordered _Children of the Night_--on the basis
> of
> >> > Doug's recommendation--thanks for the tip.)
> >> >
> >> > I'm curious, Doug, about your interest in this
> >> > material. Can you say something about that?
> >> >
> >> > Candice
> >> >
> >> > There is throughout no statement of past things
> >> > wherein memory may err...
> >> > (Bram Stoker)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
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> >>
> >> There was no sign of survivors, and
> >> the poetry reading went on.
> >>
> >> Tony Perniciaro
> >>
> >
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