Essays about: "imperialism and dracula"

Found 3 essays containing the words imperialism and dracula.

  1. 1. Detective VS Vampire - A Powerbattle : A Narratological Character Study of ‘SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. DRACULA or the Adventure of the Sanguinary Count’ to Find Underlying Symbolism of Imperialistic Representation

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Amanda Fransson; [2019]
    Keywords : Symbolism; Focalization; Subtext; Description; Characterisation; Character; Dichotomy; Imperialism;

    Abstract : This essay is a narratological character study of Loren. D Estleman’s novel SHERLOCK HOLMES VS DRACULA ​or the Adventure of the Sanguinary Count. READ MORE

  2. 2. Dracula vs. the Beetle : How Science is Used as a Rhetorical Tool to Bring the Monsters to Life

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Martin Thernlund; [2012]
    Keywords : Dracula; The Beetle; Science in literature;

    Abstract : This essay is a cultural/historical analysis of the role of science in the books Dracula by Bram Stoker and The Beetle by Richard Marsh. The aim is to investigate how science is used to lessen the amount of critical judgment the reader has to suspend while reading these two Gothic stories, as well as identifying what contexts science is part of. READ MORE

  3. 3. From Conqueror to Rebel Without a Cause : The Change in the Symbolic Function of Vampires, from Bram Stoker’s Imperialistic Dracula to Anne Rice’s Anarchistic The Vampire Lestat

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Fredrik Johansson; [2009]
    Keywords : vampires; anarchism; imperialism; dracula; lestat; stoker; rice;

    Abstract : Abstract In this essay I look at the change in the symbolic function of vampires, and to see this I use Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat. My argument is that the difference between Dracula and Lestat is basically that they represent different ideologies, with Dracula being an imperialist, and Lestat being an anarchist. READ MORE