Stoker Dracula

Bram Stoker Illustrator: NA: Dracula, Peacock/ Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. 2009 ISBN: 9788124800362

New Softcover NA Dracula, published in 1897, is the most famous of all tales of vampirism. Presented in diaries, letters and news items, this story of the bloodsucking vampire who preys on the living and can be repelled by garlic, crucifix and a wooden stake is both terrible and powerful. Dracula - tall and thin, with his beaky nose, pointed ears, cruel and sensual features, and 'peculiarly sharp white teeth'protruding over his lips - has been the subject of many films, imitations and parodies. He sleeps in a lordly tomb in the vaults beneath his desolate castle. He has been dead for centuries, yet he may never die. Long ago, Jonathan Harker had escaped the evil of Count Dracula and vowed to forget the horror he had witnessed. Now he must confront it once more if he is to stop the evil creature from claiming another victim -Jonathan's beloved wife, Mina. Determined to save her, Harker joins a band of brave souls willing to face death in order to destroy Count Dracula - before it's too late....About Author: Bram (Abraham) Stoker (1847-1912) was born near Dublin, the third of seven children. An unidentified illness kept him almost bedridden until the age of seven. It remains a mystery as to whether the ailment was of physical or psychological origin. In his adolescence, although Stoker remained shy and bookish, he was anything but sickly. Probably to make up for his earlier frailty, he was by this time developing into a fine athlete. At Trinity College, he was named University Athlete for his skill in soccer and the marathon walking event. He graduated with honours in Mathematics and looked forward to the task of making a living. Young Stoker had always dreamed of becoming a writer, but his father had safer plans for him. Yielding to his father-s wishes, he followed him into a career of civil servant in Dublin Castle. During a ten-year period as civil servant he made acquaintance of the celebrated actor-manager Sir Henry Irving. In 1878 he left this occupation to become his touring manager and secretary and remained in this post for twenty seven years. He came to know all the major theatrical men and women of the age. His first publication, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879) was followed by fifteen works of fiction, among them Dracula (1897) being the most famous. Stoker also wrote the two-volume Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906). Printed Pages: 376. First edition

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Rymes, Jens: A Devil Sick of Sin: Images of Death and Disease in Murnau's "Nosferatu" GRIN VERLAG, , Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640858530
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, printed single-sided, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Cinema and Society, Kino und Gesellschaft, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, the first vampire flick ever, is not simply an adaptation of Stoker's Dracula. Taking into consideration aspects of narratology and cinematography, this paper investigates the images of disease, paralysis, and death in Nosferatu and shows how they reflect the experience of the war and the Spanish Flu epidemic. This paper contains images from the film and has been proofread. , abstract: 1IntroductionIn adapting Stoker's Dracula, Murnau has made quite a few changes to the original plot. Some of them were made due to economic and practical reasons, such as moving the setting and locations to Germany, some of them in order to avoid charges of copyright infringement, such as changing the characters' names, as Murnau was not authorised to make an adaptation.However, Murnau doesn't simply copy Dracula. Stoker's novel about the intrusion of an alien evil into English society is transformed into a story mirroring the fears that prevailed in Germany in the late 1910's. Screenwriter Henrik Galeen and di rector Murnau were obviously influenced by the impressions that both World War I and the influenza pandemic had left. The war had left large areas in Central Europe in ruins and had triggered many political changes. Often, the new-founded Weimar Republic was seen as weak and incapable of acting. Moreover, the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918 proved no less devastating, ranking with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics.(1) Assisted by large troop movements and disastrous hygienic con ditions after the armistice, the disease spread across the globe within less than three months. Physicians and scientist were helpless. There was no immunization available: the influenza virus could not be isolated and positively identified as the pathogene until 1932. In fact, even today there are no means of preventing another influenza epidemic(2) . Murnau begins with a caption that presents the movie as a record of an epidemic: Aufzeichnung über das große Sterben in Wisborg. The vampire is not the party animal that Lugosi impersonated; instead, Murnau draws on a tradition that associates vampires with unexpected or inexplicable death. His creature feeds on a society which is defenseless against him, either because its members are too weakened or too terrified to take action. Thus, though set almost one hundred years in the past, Nosferatu presents an actualisation of Dracula.[...]______(1) Potter, C.W. A history of influenza. Journal of Applied Microbiology 31. 2001: 575.(2) cf. ibid., 572.

NEUBUCH! 2011. 36 S. 210 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V45796

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Norda, Gunnar: Vom Fürsten der Walachei zum König der Vampire: Vlad Tepes und Bram Stokers Dracula (Drakula) GRIN VERLAG, September 2007, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638793249
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,5, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 16 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Gleichermaßen für Germanisten/Germanistikstudenten, als auch Historiker/ Geschichtsstudenten interessant. , Abstract: Spätestens durch die zahllosen Filmversionen kennt ihn (fast) jeder: Dracula, den König der Vampire, der seit Erscheinen des Romans von Bram Stoker eine besondere Erfolgsgeschichte für sich verbuchen kann. Ob der Roman tatsächlich nach der Bibel in den angelsächsischen Ländern das meistgelesene Buch ist, mag sehr fraglich sein. Unzweifelhaft ist aber, dass Bram Stoker den erfolgreichsten Vampirroman weltweit geschrieben und damit seinen Helden zum Synonym des Vampirs schlechthin gemacht hat. Denn ohne die Existenz eines Grafen Dracula kann man sicher davon ausgehen, dass das Vampirbild Mittel- und Westeuropas ganz anders geprägt gewesen wäre. Weniger bekannt ist die Tatsache, dass für die Figur des Grafen Dracula eine historische Person Pate gestanden hat: Vlad Tepes, Fürst der Walachei, der für seine Grausamkeiten bekannt und schon kurz nach seinem Tod zur Legende wurde. Im 19. Jahrhundert für den rumänischen Nationalismus als idealer und gerechter Herrscher ideologisiert und politisch instrumentalisiert und später von dem rumänischen Diktator Ceausescu verehrt, wird Vlad Tepes bis heute im postkommunistischen Rumänien größtenteils positiv charakterisiert. Entsprechend wird sich der erste Teil meiner Arbeit mit der historischen Person Dracula beschäftigen. Dabei soll auf wichtige Ereignisse und Stationen seines Lebens, hauptsächlich auf historisch Belegbarem beruhend, eingegangen werden, um sich ein authentisches Bild vom wahren Dracula machen zu können. Im zweiten Schwerpunkt meiner Arbeit wird dann der Frage nachgegangen, wieso gerade diese historische Person zum Vampir werden konnte. Denn interessant ist in diesem Zusammenhang, dass Vlad Tepes in allen uns bekannten Quellen und Überlieferungen nicht ein einziges Mal mit dem Vampirglauben in Verbindung gebracht wird. Entsprechend sollen die Einflüsse näher erläutert werden, die in Verknüpfung den Anfang von Dracula realisierten bzw. in erheblichen Maße ihren Teil zur Genese des klassischen Draculamotivs beitrugen. Der letzte Teil meiner Arbeit soll den Bogen vom historischen zum literarisierten Dracula des Bram Stoker spannen. Unter welchen Umständen entstand der Roman und was wurde aus Vlad Tepes gemacht Diese und andere Fragen sollen abschließend diskutiert werden.

NEUBUCH! 2007. 28 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V64318

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Bram Stoker (Author), Harold Bloom (ed.) Illustrator: NA: Dracula: (Viva Modern Critical Interpretations) Viva Books Private Limited 2010 ISBN: 9788130906430

New Paperback NA Since its publication in 1987 Bram StokeraEUR s Dracula has never been out of print. A classic of fin de siecle fiction, the novel opens with Jonathan HarkeraEUR s horrific experiences at Count DraculaaEUR s castle, then removes to England to follow the CountaEUR s seduction of Lucy Westenra and HarkeraEUR s fiancA©e Mina, returing ultimately to Transylvania to recount the thrilling pursuit aEUR" led by Dr. Van Helsing aEUR" and destruction of the vampire. Within the narrativeaEUR s gothic recesses aEUR" its vaults, coffins, cells, mansions aEUR" Stoker captures and inventories a host of anxieties and concerns, from the rise of new media ecology to the status of women, that run through late nineteenth-century culture and continue to be relevant today. Contents: Introduction aEURc Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram StokeraEUR s Dracula aEURc Dracula: The Unseen Face in the Mirror aEURc aEUR Different from WritingaEUR : Dracula in 1897 aEURc "Kiss Me with Those Red Lips": Gender and Inversion in Bram StokeraEUR s Dracula aEURc A Vampire in the Mirror: The Sexuality of Dracula aEURc aEUR Terrors of the nightaEUR : Dracula and aEUR degenerationaEUR in the late nineteenth century aEURc Purity and Danger: Dracula, the Urban Gothic, and the Late Victorian Degeneracy Crisis aEURc Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and its Media aEURc The Rhetoric of Reform in StokeraEUR s Dracula: Depravity, Decline, and the Fin-de-SiA cle "Residuum Printed Pages: 256. First edition

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