Please download, print (or have on computer screen in class) and be ready to ask questions about, if any, for class Thurs. Also, of course, finish Salem’s Lot.
Please have the stories below read for this upcoming Tuesday. The readings are a bit shorter this time, in part because I want you to catch up and finish any short stories you did not finish from our previous readings. Expect a quiz on Tuesday. All the short stories assigned after Bram Stoker’s Dracula are fair game for this quiz.
Miss Massingberd & The Vampire
Interview With The Vampire — Excerpt
Plus, a reminder: when I don’t assign you a specific blog post, you still need to post on your blog. 300-600 words, interpreting a reading of your choosing.
Hi all. Readings to go up soon. I’m at the emergency room right now. Will post them as soon as they let me go home.
Here we go. Readings below (PDFs) — please download and print out / bring as e-copies to class on computer, your choice. Oh, also, read ’em, of course. These are all short stories from the 1950s or thereabouts. They are not particularly long, and you’ll find them much easier to read than, e.g., Dracula. See you in class Thursday, where we will also watch the last 10 minutes of Nosferatu. Be ready to discuss! Think especially about this: how do these mid-century representations of vampires differ from late 19th/early 20th century representations of vampires?
- Print out a hard copy, staple it, and give it to me in class tomorrow.
- Go to Blackboard (http://www.uh.edu/webct) and log in.
- Choose the link for our class.
- You will see an inbox labeled “Turn in Essay 1 Here.”
- Click on that inbox and follow the instructions to upload your e-copy to Turnitin.
- Don’t forget — you need to turn in an e-copy AND a hard copy.
In the interest of improving your essays, I’m not going to assign reading for this Tues. We’ll be doing an activity on Tues instead of discussing reading. So show up with your completed essays and I’ll see you then.
Download, print, read, and bring to class this Thurs. These are all early 20th-century vampire stories.
Luella Miller
Added 9/29/10
So… hi! Apparently the Luella Miller isn’t working. I’m reposting below, but you won’t be required to have this new copy of it read until next Tuesday. Do read for Tuesday, though.
You can download your assignment sheet for Essay #1 here:
Blog assignment for this week: blog about which essay prompt you plan to respond to, and your initial ideas about how you will go about responding to it. (This doesn’t commit you to a particular topic or argument — think of this as an early draft that you can change as you like later on.)
Please download and print out for class or bring e-copy to class.
P.S. If you find PDFs difficult to deal with because you’re using the Adobe Acrobat reader, you may want to try a different reader. I use Foxit PDF reader, which can be downloaded for free here. It allows you to highlight/draw on PDF files (helpful for marking up texts), and it is less buggy than Adobe’s reader. There are also lots of other good PDF readers out there.
One more Slavic folktale (since we will be talking about the Slavs), and a gothic novella (short) with another female vampire.
Vampires, Carmilla & 1 Fokltale
Thanks, Johnny, for pointing out to me that there was a problem with the uploaded file. These are new (uncorrupted) files.
1. Vampire Folktale, Bucket of Blood
File #1 should be one page long. File #2 should be 48 pages long. Let me know if there are any problems with these files.
As usual, please bring either printed or electronic copy to class with you.
Vampires in Literature & Film 