Montana I noticed that throughout your entries you would create a collage or drawing to convey your thoughts on the material. I really like this method because it can give the viewer a better idea of your thoughts, and it’s a great medium to express yourself creatively. In multiple entries, you also incorporated research from … [Read more…]
Writer Kelsey McKinney treats Pinterest boards as a form of commonplacing, where one can look back at the posts and trace a timeline of ideas, interests, and personality. I really liked this perspective because I had a Pinterest as a 12-year-old in the age of the internet. Looking back at that account is extremely cringeworthy, … [Read more…]
I saw a comprehensive list of Dracula’s powers. Something I found interesting were the powers that aren’t seen often in modern vampires, like the ability to fit through tiny cracks. I was curious if certain traits the Count shows in the book are left out of other types of vampires for a particular reason. With … [Read more…]
For this commonplace book, I wanted to examine the fears that drove the creation of Dracula. Cohen’s fourth and fifth theses (The monster dwells at the gates of difference and the monster polices the borders of the possible) are the one’s I think fit best in this sense. 4th Thesis: Dracula is a monster of … [Read more…]
I came tiptoe into our own room, and found Mina asleep, breathing so softly that I had to put my ear down to hear it. She looked paler than usual. I hope the meeting tonight has not upset her. I am truly thankful that she is to be left out of our future work, and … [Read more…]
More Context For Dracula Origins: The word vampire comes from Slavic folklore, dating back to the 11th century to the old Russian word ‘Upir’. The idea probably originated from misunderstanding of common diseases at the time, like rabies or pellagra, and the process of decomposition. Later, it would be conflated with tuberculosis and cholera. Many … [Read more…]
“I began to fear as I wrote in this book that I was getting too diffuse; but now I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy.” Stoker Comments: This quote reminded me of … [Read more…]
Despite differing over their certainty regarding its gender, Holt’s and Atherton’s markedly ethnographic descriptions of the Beetle work within expected Orientalist typology to align the bestial, the non-European, and the non-Christian in opposition to a homogeneous, white, Christian self. Both men’s portrayals of the Beetle rely on anti-Semitic aspersions about nasal size. (It should be … [Read more…]
I am altogether incapable of even hinting to you the nauseous nature of that woman’s kisses. They filled me with an indescribable repulsion. I look back at them with a feeling of physical, mental, and moral horror, across an interval of twenty years. The most dreadful part of it was that I was wholly incapable … [Read more…]
“To have tramped about all day looking for work; to have begged even for a job which would give me enough money to buy a little food; and to have tramped and begged in vain, – that was bad. But, sick at heart, depressed in mind and in body, exhausted by hunger and fatigue, to … [Read more…]
