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Title: RSSS 315 Tier 2: Fifteenth Week


1
RSSS 315 (Tier 2) Fifteenth Week
  • Vampires and Werewolves Slavic Folklore in Our
    Culture

2
Armand Chapters 14-20
  • Amazing developments
  • Breathless pace
  • Centuries pass by
  • New homes

3
Leading characters converge
  • Lestat and Akasha
  • Santino and Allesandra
  • New stories

4
Red Riding Hood Issues
  • Nature of evil
  • Sexuality violence, curiosity, link with
    reproduction
  • Otherness
  • Avarice
  • Intergenerational cooperation, rivalry,
    seduction, hostility
  • Maturity stages
  • Trust

5
Wolfland Features
  • Matriarchy
  • Husband dead, murdered
  • Defense abused spouse issues

6
More features
  • Gothic setting
  • Character reversal grandmother as wolf
  • Not ordinary wolf werewolf bound by lycanthropic
    rules
  • Intertext all the LRRH stories
  • Humane and pragmatic order of society?

7
Problems
  • Is grandmother humane?
  • What was her relationship with her husband really
    like?
  • Abused woman syndrome
  • S/M dimension
  • Who/what is Beauty?
  • Acceptable notion of male small, feminized,
    pet
  • Accepts rough treatment without complaint

8
Other Problems
  • What kind of people/women are these two?
  • Mean-spirited?
  • Horror story? Or Story with a message?
  • What is it? Revenge?

9
Neil Jordan, 1950-
10
Filmography
  • Company of Wolves, 1984
  • Interview with a Vampire, 1994
  • Crying Game, 1992
  • Good Thief, 2002
  • Now Breakfast on Pluto

11
Angela Carter, 1940-
  • Feminist science fiction, stories, novels
  • Co-author of screenplay
  • Short story

12
The film.
13
What happened last time?
  • Death of sister
  • Trip to grandmothers
  • Stories about wolves
  • Fairy tale atmosphere
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