The
instructor may make changes to the schedule during the semester.� I will announce all readings in class,
especially for the section on literature.
August 29,
Introduction to the class.
Lecture:� Introduction to Folklore.
September 01, (not a class night)
Pretest is due.
September 05,
Lecture:� Introduction to Folklore (cont.).
Lecture:� Finding Motifs in Folklore
September
12,
Lecture:� Introduction to the Vampire.
September 19,
Lecture:� The Vampire in History.
Lecture:� The Decomposition of Corpses.�
September
26,
Lecture:� Vampires and Psychology.
October 03,
Lecture:� Theories of the Vampire or Corpse Medicine.
�
Students
must complete the folklore blog by midnight.
October 10,
Film:� The
Lost Boys
October 17,
The Vampire in
Literature:� Introduction
�
excerpt from �Thalaba the Destroyer� by
Southey (1797) *handout available online
�
excerpt from �The Giaour� by Byron
(1813) *handout available online
�
�The Vampyre� by John Polidori (1819) *handout available online
�
Discussion of Motifs
October 24,
The Vampire in
Literature.
Lecture:� The Penny Dreadful
�
excerpts (TBA) from Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer (1845+) *available online
�
Discussion of Motifs
�
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) *full text available online
�
Discussion of Motifs
October 31,
The Vampire in
Literature.
�
Dracula by Bram Stoker, Chapters 1-20.
November
07,
The Vampire in
Literature.
�
Dracula by Bram Stoker, Chapters 21-27
�
Stoker, B (1914) �Dracula�s Guest� *available online
�
Loring, F. G. (1900). "The Tomb of
Sarah."
�
�The Vampire� poem by Rudyard Kipling (1897) *available online or
pp. 397-98 in Dracula
November
14,
�
Students
must complete the literature blog by midnight.
Film:� Nosferatu.
November 21,
Film:� Dracula (1931)
November
26, (not a
class night)
�
Graduate students must submit
their annotated bibliographies in APA format by midnight.
�
Students
must complete the film blog by midnight.
December
05,
Film:� Bram Stoker�s Dracula.
Dec. �XX,
Final Examination.