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Daily Archives: 4th November 2015
Britain’s Medieval Vampires – Review
Last night I caught up with ‘Britain’s Medieval Vampires’ on Channel 4. The programme looked at a number of ‘deviant’ burials which had occurred in the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain and related them to a 12th-century text, the ‘Life and … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Reviews
Tagged anthropology, blood, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Folklore, Vampires
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Octavia Butler’s ‘Fledgling’ and Queer Black Vampire Mythology
For my sins, I have not read Octavia Butler’s Fledgling (2005). However this article ‘Fledgling and Queer Black Vampire Mythology’, part of Autostraddle’s ‘Hidden Gems of Queer Lit’ series, makes me think I may need to get hold of a copy,
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged Gothic novel, race, science, sexuality, SF, Vampires
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Shakespeare’s Vampires
My two worlds collide in this article: ‘Shakespeare’s Vampire: Hubris in Coriolanus, Meyer’s Twilight, and Stoker’s Dracula’ by Patrick Gray.
Posted in Books and Articles, Resources
Tagged Dracula, Gothic, Shakespeare, Twilight, Vampires
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