around vampires. The mystical world of vampires has progressed throughout the years‚ from Bram Stocker’s atrocious view of the mythical creature‚ to today’s view of vampires. Currently we view vampires as attractive people with pale skin‚ unique eye colors‚ and sometimes skin that sparkles. The characteristics of vampires have changed drastically from the once sinister being. The differences in the three films: 1931 Bela Lugosi film‚ Van Helsing‚ and Hotel Transylvania‚ all show how vampires have developed
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AMERICAN LITERATURE Intertextuality In The Hours Intertextuality is a term first introduced by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties. She says that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author‚ but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself. "Any text‚" she argues‚ "is constructed of a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." ( www.litencyclopedia.com‚ Kristeva: Word‚ Dialogue‚ and
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Shambhavi Chowdhury FI AC Shambhavi Chowdhury FI AC To what extent is Dracula a gothic play? Throughout the play Dracula‚ adapted by David Calcutt‚ several conventions can be identified. In this essay I will discuss some of the important conventions which will explain whether Dracula is a gothic play. Firstly‚ David Calcutt has adapted the conventions of dreams‚ by using “You think this is a dream‚ Mr. Harker? A terrible dream from which you will wake?”. These dreams are Dracula’s ways
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Vampires Stories Started Thousands of Years Ago in Myths Today They Are Very Real and Among Us Abstract Vampires have been a part of human culture for thousands of years. There have been stories of vampire like creatures in Mesopotamia‚ Greece‚ China‚ and Europe. These stories have spanned the globe and time. The vampire has evolved overtime based on the current trends and beliefs and culture of the time. Today when the word vampire is said many visualize Dracula from the stories by Bram
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Preface: The dissonance between the film (Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992) and the novel (Dracula‚ Prince of Many faces: His life and times) was absolutely astounding. I never expected the novel to take such a historical and authentic digression. Uncovering the man from the myth‚ the truth from the tale and to vastly and inimically ruin the revered image I believed of Dracula to have. Of the many annexations of Dracula; Bram Stoker’s Dracula foremost differences materialize through the scenario transitions
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Bram Stoker’s classic gothic romance novel Dracula‚ illustrates horrific actions of a count‚ and disturbing events that occur in Transylvania. Many literary techniques are used to emphasize Stoker’s works. Literary devices such as sensual imagery‚ gothic setting‚ and tone add to the decadent ghastliness in his novel. Sensual imagery describes enhanced‚ grotesque effects within the novel. Jonathan’s encounter with the three beautiful seductive vampires threatens his well-being and sanity. The fair
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internationally and have received awards ‚ they also add to their achievements four award-winning films for television (www.dv8.co.uk) . In this essay I will discuss the intertextuality that can be seen in Dv8 original film The Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson and how Newson approached the piece . Intertextuality can be defined as “the complex interrelationship between a text and other texts taken as basic to the creation or interpretation of the text”(Wall‚ 2007:97). Or
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a “Intertextualities and Contradictions in Cambridge” In Cambridge by Caryl Phillips‚ the history of the slave trade is exposed through different points of view or narratives‚ one by an Englishwoman and another by a slave called Cambridge. Phillips wants the reader to understand how European merchants treated the slaves and make a connection to what they went through. Evelyn O’Callaghan is one of the editors of the Journal of West Indian Literature. She had many interests like contemporary West
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seems obsessed with vampires. From gothic vampire novels‚ to endless movies‚ television and art‚ the vampire archetype continues to grow in popularity and sophistication. What is behind this seeming obsession with vampires‚ in our western culture? Why does this archeype endure? What does the vampire have‚ or do‚ that makes him/her so attractive and compelling? When did the transformation occur‚ from foul miscreant to suave tragic hero? Who is the vampire - really? Vampire culture seems in stark
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blood sucking Dracula have in common with the attractive vampires that are shown in the movie Twilight? A lot actually‚ not only do they share the same name of “Vampire” or “Undead”‚ they also share the same powers and needs. The vampire genre has gone a long way‚ specifically with books like Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It first started out as folklore and then it turned into a popular topic of writing in early European culture. Bram Stoker then combined what he could into one classic vampire that is widely
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