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DRÁCULA AND THE LITERARY CRITERIA SPECIALIZED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1972-2017)
2018
The present article strives to analyse, in a necessarily synthetic way, the main interpretive currents that have led to the study of Dracula, the novel published by Bram Stoker in 1897. The objective is to better capture what academic interests this novel has generated and how it has gone from being considered a mediocre product to becoming a classic of contemporary literature. Beginning in the seventies, I will expose the evolution of the critique and its most important contributions, focusing on those works that have represented a turning point in the studies on the novel. I hope to complete a broad enough overview of the evolution and state of research around Dracula.
Hypnosis, Animal Magnetism, and Monstrosity in late Nineteenth Century English Literature
2019
We will explore the literary image of animal magnetism and hypnosis through the analysis of two works of fiction: the novels Richard Marsh’s The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). During all the 19th century and mainly at its last, many authors used animal magnetism and hypnosis in their fictional creations in an environmental or plot way, so much that Arthur Quiller-Couch, an important literary critic of the nineteenth century, spoke about the emergence of a new literary subgenre that he called “hypnotic fiction”. Starting from the idea that in this mesmeric and hypnotic fiction literature you can clearly trace differentiated stereotypes of magnetizers and hypnotist…
Miedo y deseo. Historia cultural de "Drácula" (1897)
2016
Miedo y deseo. Historia cultural de Drácula (1897) es, como su propio subtítulo indica, una tesis de historia cultural que tiene como principal objeto de estudio la novela publicada por Bram Stoker en 1897. El propósito principal de la investigación es comprobar si, sometida a un enfoque crítico adecuado, Drácula está en condiciones de proporcionar algún tipo de conocimiento sobre el pasado que enriquezca lo ya sabido a través de otras fuentes. Lo que este trabajo estudia es la construcción histórica de distintas identidades sociales, de qué modo un conjunto de discursos e ideologías pugnan por modelar a los sujetos históricos en un periodo muy concreto: las últimas décadas del siglo XIX. A…