RSSS 315 Fifth Week

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RSSS 315 (Fifth Week)

• Slavic Folklore Vampires and Werewolves

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Basic information

• Instructor George Gutsche
• Teaching assistants Kenny Cargill, Paula
  McCambridge
• gutscheg_at_u.arizona.edu
• D2L http//russian.arizona.edu/courses/vampires
• Office hours T 11-1230 or by appointment

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Study Guide
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Literature vs. Folklore
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Last Time

• Introduction to werewolves Slovak folk tale and
  Peter Stubbe story
• Discussion of fourth and fifth chapters of
  Stokers Dracula
• Terminology for vampires
• Discussion of film and story Viy
• Gothic stories, Romanticism
• Early literary treatments of vampirism German
  and English

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More folklore accounts to consider (Russian)

• Death at the Wedding
• Bucket of Blood
• Sorcerery

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Background for Stoker

• Biography 1847-1912
• Irish college civil servant, journalist, drama
  critic
• Personal secretary to Henry Irving (actor) in
  England
• Married, one child
• Wrote novels and short stories (18 books)
• Dracula 1897 best known

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General remarks

• Stokers narrative
• Stokers stylistic devices
• Stoker and science
• Stoker sites

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Chapters 6-10
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Whitby
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Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoi 1817-75

• The Family of the Vurdalak (La famille du
  vourdalak)
• Late 1830s, unpublished
• Numerous film adaptations

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Mario Bavas Black Sabbath

• 1963 film American and Italian version
• Three stories one based on Tolstois story ("The
  Wurdalak)

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Discussion of Tolstois Story
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Other Readings

• Byrons
• Polidoris Ruthven

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General interpretations of werewolves

• Psychological
• Sociological
• Ideological

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More on Reality-Based Vampires

• Perkowskis Psychic vampires
• Psychology of sucking, biting, thirsting, death
  and rebirth
• Links with milk and blood
• Oral sadism
• Attraction, repulsion ambivalence
• Projection revenge of the dead

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Literature into Film Challenges

• Background information
• Imagery
• Suggestiveness
• Inner dialogue, monologue

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Nosferatu films (German)

• Murnaus Symphony of Horror 1922
• Herzogs Nosferatu 1979