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  Dracula Postmortem, Part IV

  11.06.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  With the reading of Dracula concluded, the Guides will spend the week discussing the novel in roundtable format. This is the last of four parts.
  Is Dracula still relevant?
  Kevin Fanning: That’s a tough question. I think that vampires in general are still so relevant, compared to the half-lives of zombies and pirates and mummies and ninjas, [...]

• Guides, Roundtables

  Dracula Postmortem, Part III

  11.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  With the reading of Dracula concluded, the Guides will spend the week discussing the novel in roundtable format. This is the third of four parts.
  Claire commented on the constant tension in the novel between the supernatural and the scientific method. Any additional thoughts on the subject?
  Matthew Baldwin: I was unclear if Stoker was championing the [...]

• Guides, Roundtables

  Dracula Postmortem, Part II

  11.03.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  With the reading of Dracula concluded, the Guides will spend the week discussing the novel in roundtable format. This is the second of four parts.
  What are the strengths and drawbacks of the epistolary format of the novel?
  Matthew Baldwin: One advantage is that the reader never really knows where the author stands on some of [...]

• Guides, Roundtables

  Dracula Postmortem, Part I

  11.02.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  With the reading of Dracula concluded, the Guides will spend the week discussing the novel in roundtable format. This is the first of four parts.
  What were your exceptions going in? Did the novel meet or defy them?
  Matthew Baldwin: Having previously read a number of olde tymey adventure novels (Frankenstein, Man in the Iron [...]

• Claire Zulkey's Journal

  And If I See Van Helsing, I Swear That I Will Slay Him! Hah Hah Hah!

  10.28.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  I think this is my last post on old Dracky which makes me sad since I had so many things I wanted to still wanted to ask and discuss. Like why do we think Stoker included Quincey Morris with the crew?  (I don’t think I would have missed him if he weren’t there).  And does [...]

• Kevin Fanning's Journal

  All Male Review

  10.26.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Moisten your lips with some brandy for our man Renfield, all. Surely I’m not alone in mourning his untimely demise? How will we manage to get through the rest of this book without him? In a novel filled with infuriating characters and their weak motivations, Renfield was a rock, our touchstone. Yes he ate bugs, [...]

• Matthew Baldwin's Journal

  The Many Adaptations of Dracula

  10.23.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Despite having never read Dracula before, I have long been a fan of the character and his undead ilk. And so I’m going to cheat a little bit, using my analysis column to instead give a quick rundown of some of my favorite Dracula adaptations in a variety of media.
  Theater
  Dracula (1924): Dracula the [...]

• Claire Zulkey's Journal

  Damn All Thick-Headed Dutchmen! (And Englishmen and Americans)

  10.21.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  I am reading the edition of Dracula that includes a forward and commentary by Joseph Valente. In his intro, Valente bemoans just how idiotic the vampire hunters are at times in the book and we’ve just gotten to the place where Van Helsing et al are starting to behave like a bunch of dumbasses. It’s [...]

• Kevin Fanning's Journal

  Dear Diary I Am Freaking Out

  10.19.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  So, wow this is starting to get pretty awesome, yeah? I guess going into this I was expecting it to be a kind of historically quaint little vampire tale? Dracula being creepy-ish but mainly overwrought, most of the good action either implied or happening off-screen, me going “NOT AS GOOD AS BUFFY S3″ after every [...]

• Matthew Baldwin's Journal

  Nobody Likes a Freeloader

  10.16.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Okay, true confession time. After diligently keeping up with the Infinite Jest reading schedule for three months straight, Dracula somehow got the better of me. I am caught up now, but totally stalled out there for a spell. After tearing through the Castle Dracula prologue and 50 pages thereafter, the string of Lucy [...]

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• Dracula Postmortem, Part III
• Dracula Postmortem, Part II
• Dracula Postmortem, Part I
• And If I See Van Helsing, I Swear That I Will Slay Him! Hah Hah Hah!
• All Male Review
• The Many Adaptations of Dracula
• Damn All Thick-Headed Dutchmen! (And Englishmen and Americans)
• Dear Diary I Am Freaking Out
• Nobody Likes a Freeloader

The Last 10 Comments

• Elizabeth Miller: I agree with Todeswalzer’s observations about the sameness of the narrative voices. I suppose...
• Todeswalzer: the structure was a good idea (using the diaries and correspondence), although I don’t think it was used...
• Prolixian: I don’t know precisely what qualifies as relevance per the question for this section, but I can...
• Elizabeth Miller: Re the movie “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Whatever it is, it is not “Bram...
• Ryan: Do you think there’s any significance to Quincey’s death? That whole ending scene happens so...
• samantha: I liked Quincy a lot because he was about action and noticing things. Everyone else does a lot of sitting...
• kfan: Excellent.
• LemmusLemmus: I was going to ask the same thing. May I suggest Great Expectations by Dickens, which is (1) generally...
• Todeswalzer: So what’s next for Infinite Summer? People have been asking on the forums, but, strangely, no...
• William.K.H.: MB: The amazing qualities of the first four chapters almost worked against the novel, as their promise...

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