Transcript Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Colfax School District

Bram Stoker’s
Dracula
Dr. Beth Torgerson
The Novel as Genre
 Novel versus poetry
 Metaphors
 Narrator
 Narrative structure
Doubleday
1902
Reading Dracula
 Archetypes
“Shadow” & “Hero”
 New Historicism
“Invasion” literature
Victorian fears
All is Vanity
Charles Allan Gilbert
1892
Review, Chapters 1-6
 Characters
 Plot
 Themes
Winona Ryder as Mina, 1992
The History of the Vampire
Ambras Castle Portrait
Circa 1560
Vlad the Impaler
Mark Satchwill
2007
Elizabeth Báthory
Origins
• Cultural vampire myths
History
and
Universality
of
Vampire
Lore
• Literary origins
Poem “The Vampyre” (1810)
Polidori’s The Vampyre (1816; 1819)
Tom Holland’s Lord of the Dead (US);
The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of
George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (UK, 1995)
Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)
Varney the Vampire (1847)
Stoker’s Dracula (1897)
Rewriting the Vampire Legend
Vitruvian Man
Leonardo da Vinci
1447
What does it mean to be human?
Robert Pattinson as
Edward Cullen
Twilight Saga
What does it mean to be immortal?
Assignments
For Friday, April 27
Chapters 7-11, Pages 75-144
For Monday, April 30
Chapters 12-16, Pages 145-218
For Monday, April 30
DISCUSSION BOARD OPENS
For Wednesday, May 2
Chapters 17-22, Pages 218-301
For Friday, May 4
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
For Monday, May 7
Chapters 23-27, Pages 301-378
For Wednesday, May 9
GAME SHOW REVIEW