January 2011
7 posts
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
About a week ago I read an article in the Guardian that talked about how the partner of the late Stieg Larsson, who apparently has been left with nothing because she and Larsson weren’t married and so his assets reverted to his family, is intending to finish a fourth installment of Larsson’s Millennium saga. I cannot express how irritated this announcement made me....
terrydassow asked: Are you a wide reader of vampire texts? I am, which is why Bram's Dracula seems a whole different type of vampire mythos than the modern day versions. Bram Stoker's text has much more of a Marxist analysis potential, much like Pride and Prejudice does. Do you prefer the original myth to the modern day versions?
Why Bram Stoker's Dracula is probably the best...
This evening, I finished writing the second essay of my academic career on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Even though I was focussing on roughly the same argument (Count Dracula as an embodiment of Fin-de-Siecle anxieties about reverse colonisation and racial purity), the stuff I dug up and the way I discussed it this time was completely different to the way I handled it the first time. And I...
