Joanna
Are vamps related to vampires??
Sounds a good thread though
P de P
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Sent: 28 February 2007 16:17
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Subject: Re: Vlad the Impaler
But hasn't anyone written any vampire poems? And if not, why not?
Just a thought.
joanna
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From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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>>
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