English 4710/5710 (1): The Vampire in Folklore, Literature, and Film

Tentative Schedule


The instructor may make changes to the schedule during the semester.� I will announce all readings in class, especially for the section on literature.


August 29,

Introduction to the class.

Lecture:� Introduction to Folklore.

September 01, (not a class night)

Pretest is due.


September 05,

Lecture:� Introduction to Folklore (cont.).

Lecture:� Finding Motifs in Folklore

September 12,

Lecture:� Introduction to the Vampire.


September 19,

Lecture:� The Vampire in History.

Lecture:� The Decomposition of Corpses.�

September 26,

Lecture:� Vampires and Psychology.

October 03,

Lecture:� Theories of the Vampire or Corpse Medicine.

�         Students must complete the folklore blog by midnight.

October 10,

Film:� The Lost Boys

October 17,

The Vampire in Literature:� Introduction

 

�         excerpt from �Thalaba the Destroyer� by Southey (1797) *handout available online

�         excerpt from �The Giaour� by Byron (1813) *handout available online

�         �The Vampyre� by John Polidori (1819) *handout available online

�         Discussion of Motifs

October 24,

The Vampire in Literature.

 

Lecture:� The Penny Dreadful

�         excerpts (TBA) from Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer (1845+) *available online

�         Discussion of Motifs

�         Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) *full text available online

�         Discussion of Motifs

October 31,

The Vampire in Literature.

 

�         Dracula by Bram Stoker, Chapters 1-20.

 

November 07,

 

The Vampire in Literature.

 

�         Dracula by Bram Stoker, Chapters 21-27

 

�         Stoker, B (1914) �Dracula�s Guest� *available online

�         Loring, F. G. (1900).  "The Tomb of Sarah."

�         �The Vampire� poem by Rudyard Kipling (1897) *available online or pp. 397-98 in Dracula

 

November 14,

�         Students must complete the literature blog by midnight.

Film:� Nosferatu.

November 21,

Film:� Dracula (1931)

November 26, (not a class night)

�         Graduate students must submit their annotated bibliographies in APA format by midnight.

�         Students must complete the film blog by midnight.

December 05,

Film:� Bram Stoker�s Dracula.

Dec. �XX,

Final Examination.