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"Betwixt Sunset And Sunrise": Liminality In Dracula, Mark M. Hennelly Jr.
"Betwixt Sunset And Sunrise": Liminality In Dracula, Mark M. Hennelly Jr.
Journal of Dracula Studies
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The Cultural-Historical Origins Of The Literary Vampire In Germany, Heidi Crawford
The Cultural-Historical Origins Of The Literary Vampire In Germany, Heidi Crawford
Journal of Dracula Studies
Before British authors began writing vampire literature, culminating in 1897 with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, eighteenth-century German poets, most significantly Heinrich August Ossenfelder, Gottfried August Bürger, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, had begun to adapt the curious phenomenon of vampirism from Central Europe for the creative literature they were producing in the enlightened West. Possibly the most striking observation about the origins of the vampire figure in German poetry is that the German poets seem to have drawn more on Central European than German folklore. The reason for this is that the literary vampire was introduced into eighteenth-century German ballad poetry …
Echoes Of Dracula: Racial Politics And The Failure Of Segregated Spaces In Richard Matheson's I Am Legend., Kathy Davis Patterson
Echoes Of Dracula: Racial Politics And The Failure Of Segregated Spaces In Richard Matheson's I Am Legend., Kathy Davis Patterson
Journal of Dracula Studies
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Dracula And The Afterlife: A Psychological Explanation, Jack D. Maser
Dracula And The Afterlife: A Psychological Explanation, Jack D. Maser
Journal of Dracula Studies
Until relatively recently, the primary psychological approach to understanding Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the folklore of vampires has been psychoanalysis. Maurice Richardson asserted in 1956 that Dracula must be seen from a Freudian standpoint, since “from no other does the story really make any sense” (427). However, the psychoanalytic approach shares little with modern, scientifically based psychology. Fascinating though it may be, psychoanalytic theory has almost no measurable attributes and may itself be as mythical as vampires and an afterlife. Rather, psychoanalysis is a creative theory of human cognition and behavior that can be neither proven false, objectively replicated, nor …
The People Of Bram Stoker's Transylvania, Duncan Light
The People Of Bram Stoker's Transylvania, Duncan Light
Journal of Dracula Studies
One of the defining features of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the “specific and detailed geographical context that sets this novel apart from other gothic novels” (Florescu & McNally 5). Indeed, although Stoker had not visited Transylvania, he is known to have read widely in preparing Dracula.1 While his historical research has come under particular scrutiny, little attention has been paid to his representation and understanding of the region’s geography.2 As a human geographer with research interests in Romania, I find that there is something not “quite right” about Stoker’s Transylvania. In particular, where are the Romanians? And why are there …