Required Reading from texts and on-line sources.
All students are required to read the following through reserve materials,
text purchases, or on-line resources. I have tried to make as much
of the material as possible available through on-line versions or reserve
materials in the UWF library:
| BOOKS: |
| Terry Prewitt [1994, 2002], The Squatter (special text, available at UWF bookstore). |
| Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897, any edition). |
| READINGS: |
| Evan Alderson (1997) 'Ballet as Ideology: Giselle, Act 2' in Meaning in Motion, J. Desmond, ed., Duke University Press, 121-132. |
| Sue-Ellen Case (1991) 'Tracking the Vampire', in Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory, K. conboy, N. Medina, and S. Stanbury, eds., Columbia University Press, 1997, 380-400 (Orig. in Differences 3.2, 1-20). |
| Barbara Creed (1993) 'Woman as Vampire: The Hunger', in The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 59-72. |
| Ann Daly (1997) 'Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference' in Meaning in Motion, J. Desmond, ed., Duke University Press, 111-119. |
| Vera Dika (1996) 'From Dracula--with Love', in The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Barry Keith Grant ed., The University of Texas Press, 388-400. |
| Kim Hewitt (1997) 'Anorexia and Self-Mutilation Diagnosed as Pathological', Chapter 3, Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink, Bowling Green U: The Popular Press. |
| Laurence Rickels (1995) The Vampire Lectures, University of Minnesota Press. Lectures one through three, 1-39. |
| Terry J. Prewitt (1993) 'Unholy Anorexia: Vampires of the Body and Sign', in John Deely, ed., Semiotics 1992, John Deely, ed., Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 300-319. |
| Phyllis A. Roth (1977) 'Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula', Literature and Psychology, no.27, 113-121. |
| Roxana Stuart (1994) Stage Blood: Vampires of the 19th-Century Stage, The Popular press. 'Stage Adaptations' (181-207), 'Film Adaptations' (217-242), 'Conclusion' (248-257). |
| Robin Wood (1996), 'Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula', in The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Barry Keith Grant ed., The University of Texas Press, 364-378. |
| Bonnie Zimmerman (1984) 'Daughters of Darkness: The Lesbian Vampire on Film', in The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, Barry Keith Grant ed., The University of Texas Press, 1996, 379-387 (Orig. in another collection by the same editor, published by the Scarecrow Press, Inc. Metuchen, N.J. and London, 1984). |
| Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1890. (various editions are available). Readings include 'Mythic Embodiments of Fertility' from the section 'Dying and Reviving Gods', pp. 163-225 of The New Golden Bough: a New Abridgment of the Classic Work, Theodor Gaster, ed. (Anchor, 1961). |
| Holy Bible (World English Bible on-line), readings from Genesis (4-5; 22-23), Exodus (12, 13, 22, 24, 29), the Gospel of John (6:22-70) and various parallels. |
Additional Bibliography. Graduate students
are encouraged to familiarize themselves with all of the following resources:
| Creed, Barbara (1994) The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Routledge. |
| Dijkstra, Bram (1989) Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Culture, Oxford. |
| Le Fanu, J. Sheridan (1872) Carmilla (on-line resource). |
| Miller, Sally (1999) Vampires, the Body and Eating Disorders: A Psychoanalytic Approach (online resource). |
| Orbach, Susie (1998) Fat is a Feminist Issue, Arrow. |
| Prewitt, Terry (1990) The Elusive Covenant: A Structural Semiotic Reading of Genesis, Indiana U. Press. |
| Rickels, Laurence (1999) The Vampire Lectures, Univ. of Minnesota Press. |
| Stoker, Bram (1897) Dracula, (any edition). |
| Stuart, Roxana (1994) Stage Blood: Vampires of the 19th-Century Stage, Bowling Green U: The Popular Press. |