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The Postmillennial Vampire
Congratulations to Dr Sue Chaplin of Leeds Beckett University on her new book, The Postmillennial Vampire: Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives, out now from Palgrave Macmillan. This book explores the contemporary figure of … Continue reading
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Tagged law, Poppy Z. Brite, postmillennial, power, René Girard, sacred, sympathetic vampire, True Blood, Twilight, Vampires, violence
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Fairy Tale Pathology
To my mind, this advice by Sandhya Raghavan on ‘6 famous fairy tales you should never let your child read‘ seems like parody; these readings, if serious, are reductive, mechanistic, and unimaginative. Yet the alleged harmful effects of fairy tales … Continue reading
Retelling Fairy Tales: Little Red is Armed by the NRA
Here are some more recent fairy tale adaptations, for younger readers this time–thanks, once again, to the excellent Barnes & Noble blog (there is one for teen books and one for children). Fairy tales, of course, are never innocent; their … Continue reading
CFP: Workshop on Dracula, Conference Education and Culture, Romania, June 2015
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS: Workshop WHERE’S THE PLACE OF DRACULA: (DE)CONSTRUCTING STEREOTYPES IN THE STUDY OF THE MYTHICAL SPACE IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS part of the International Conference Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture, West University of Timișoara, … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences
Tagged Bram Stoker, CFP, Conference, Dracula, education, Film, Gothic, History, horror, Romania, Space, violence, visual arts
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