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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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