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  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 [...]

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  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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  Serpents and Bats

  10.09.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Dracula has often been called “an inversion of the Christian mythos”. Well, I don’t know if it has “often” been called that. A friend once told me that in a bar over beers, and it sounds smart, so I’m repeating it here.
  Still, you don’t have to go far into the novel before the [...]

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