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Tag Archives: Dracula
Love Song for A Vampire (2)
But then there’s also Annie Lennox’s ‘Love Song for a Vampire’ from Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the film which really cemented the figure of Dracula as romantic other and thus plays a central role in the development of … Continue reading
Posted in Film Clips
Tagged Coppola, Dracula, love, music, Paranormal romance, Valentine's Day, Vampires
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The Icelandic Dracula
Fascinating article by Hans Corneel de Roos on an Icelandic vampire novel from 1900 which has a curious hypertextual relationship with Bram Stoker’s Dracula (‘hypertextual’ is Gérard Genette’s term for that variety of intertextuality where one text is modelled on … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, Iceland. Scandinavian, Intertextuality, vampire
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Werewolves, pulp fiction, and folklore
OGOM’s very own Kaja Franck has contributed a fascinating item, ‘Old Tails in New Bottles: Folklore’s Influence on Pulp Fiction Werewolves‘ to the marvellous Folklore Thursday website, talking about the interactions between and generic transformations among popular fiction and folkloric … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Dracula, Folklore, popular fiction, pulp fiction, science, SF, Werewolves
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Whitby, Goth, and Steampunk
An incisive article here by Claire Nally of Northumbria University on the proliferation of subcultures around Goth and steampunk, focusing on Whitby (and a nod to OGOM collaborator Catherine Spooner’s work).
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Dracula, Genre, Goth subculture, music, neo-Victorian, steampunk, subcultures, Whitby
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UH ARTS: Vampires on Screen
The University of Hertfordshire is currently presenting BLOODLUST, a vampire themed film event for October. The season should be of interest to all lovers of Gothic cinema. If you are one of our UH MA: Modern Literary Cultures students (who will take … Continue reading
Travels in Transylvania: Bram Stoker’s Ambiguous Legacy
Last week I was in Romania at the University of Timisoara for the Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture conference. My keynote was on the representation of Romanian folklore in British and Irish fictions of the undead. Stoker never travelled … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Critical thoughts, OGOM News, Reviews
Tagged Dracula, Folklore, Romania
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Top Ten Shapeshifters – The Retro Version
In response to The Guardian’s Top Ten Shapeshifters in Fiction (which is very noughties) and Kaja’s lively alternative list, I am posting my own top ten which is a little bit more retro! A shapeshifter is usually understood to be … Continue reading
Vampire Politics meets the EU
This article ‘Transylvania joining EU could see one million vampires in UK by 2020’ was published on the satirical news site NewsThump. Adding a Gothic twist to Brexit, it exaggerates fears regarding national identity by suggesting that by remaining in … Continue reading
Dracula; the first edition
On this day (16 May), 1897, that seminal text of open graves and the Undead, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published. The British Library’s website (an excellent resource) has a valuable little piece on that first edition here.
Bram Stoker: The Disappearing Vampire at Dublin Writer’s Museum
When I found myself in Ireland over Easter I headed to the Dublin Writer’s Museum to look for material on Bram Stoker. The museum presents ‘the literary heritage left by writers of the past’ and it was established ‘to promote interest, … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, exhibitions, OGOM Research, Reviews
Tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, Dublin, fairies, irish gothic, Vampires
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