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Dracula Postmortem, Part IV
11.06.09 | Permalink | 3 CommentsWith 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, [...] -
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Dracula Postmortem, Part III
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 [...] -
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Dracula Postmortem, Part II
11.03.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsWith 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 [...] -
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Dracula Postmortem, Part I
11.02.09 | Permalink | 9 CommentsWith 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 [...]
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- 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...
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- samantha: I liked Quincy a lot because he was about action and noticing things. Everyone else does a lot of sitting...
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- LemmusLemmus: I was going to ask the same thing. May I suggest Great Expectations by Dickens, which is (1) generally...
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