... the 1990s, in a remarkable departure from the gothic tradition, vampire stories have prompted the audience to identify with the vampires’ feelings and desires. Vampires are elegant and artistically gifted, have good taste, and display ...
Tópico(s): Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
2021 - Duke University Press | New German Critique
Francisco Javier Sánchez-Verdejo Pérez, Alexander Meireles da Silva,
Being born in the same monstruous night that witnessed the rise of Frankenstein monster, the vampire Lord Ruthven celebrates in 2019 two hundred years influencing vampire culture. As it happens in literature, John William Polidori’s creature spread his curse through the centuries creating attractive, aristocrat, sexually ambiguous and immoral male and female vampires. From Victorian penny dreadfuls, novellas and novels such as Varney, the Vampire, Carmilla and Dracula, to present novel as Interview ...
Tópico(s): Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
2019 - UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO | Abusões
... its dedication to density, difficulty, and an avant-gothic vision. The first self-reflexive line of his latest, Play, A Novel is, "There will be no intermission." That's it exactly. Reading Singer, you know there will be no time to drift off, none to pop out to the metaphorical lobby for a tub of popcorn. Open Play and you discover a one-page theater piece: an aristocrat with dueling pistol enters a forest clearing, raises ...
Tópico(s): Contemporary Literature and Criticism
2020 - University of Nebraska Press | American book review/The American book review