RSSS 315 Tenth Week

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RSSS 315 (Tenth Week)

• Slavic Folklore Vampires and Werewolves

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Basic information

• Instructor George Gutsche
• Teaching assistants Kenny Cargill
• gutscheg_at_u.arizona.edu
• D2L http//russian.arizona.edu/courses/vampires
  
• Office hours T 11-1230 or by appointment

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Restoration of Conventional Family

• Major theme in werewolf and vampire (folk)
  literature and film
  
• Think about it.

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Werewolves

• Psychological
• Sociological
• Ideological

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Little Red Riding Hood Perrault, Bros. Grimm

• Perrault both eaten
• Grimm woodsman to the rescue

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Werewolf features
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Reading Little Red Riding Hood

• Perrault
• Grimm
• Anonymous
• Differentiating features

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Accounts

• Folklore
• Fairy tales
• Cautionary tales

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Red Riding Hood Issues

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

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Gustave Doré Print for Perrault Story
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Kitzbergs Play, Werewolf 1812

• August Kitzberg,1855-1927
• Estonian writer
• Tragedy
• Allegorical
• Social dimension (Realism)
• Attack on conventional values

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Vampire Chronicles

• Interview with the Vampire 1976
• The Vampire Lestat 1985
• Queen of the Damned 1988
• Tale of the Body Thief 1992
• Memnoch the Devil 1995
• The Vampire Armand 1998
• Merrick 2000
• Blood and Gold 2001
• Blackwood Farm 2002
• Blood Canticle 2003

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New Tales

• Pandora 1998
• Vittorio the Vampire 1999

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First Three Chapters of Armand

• Links with Gospels-Christianity
• Veronicas Veil
• Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
• Clash of Empires (and religions Orthodoxy,
  Catholicism, Islam)
  
• Byzantine (dying)
• Ottoman (growing stronger)
• Venetian

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In medias res

• Bio of Andrei-Amadeo-Armand
• Entwined with lives of other vampires
• David Talbot
• Lestat
• Marius

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Louis and Lestat (1992)
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Journey
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Controversial themes

• s/m
• pederasty
• homosexuality

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Chapters One-Three
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Iconostasis
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Venice
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Grand Canal
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Armands Quest (Torcello)
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Kievan Rus
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Monastery of the Caves
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History

• Height of power 10th-12th
• Invasion, destruction in 13th
• Bare survival next centuries Mongol Occupation
• Under rule of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 16th

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Iconography

• Holy activity purity
• Iconographers role
• Holy image follow the model
• Not made by human hands
• Two-dimensions, unusual perspective
• Prominent in Orthodoxy

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Christ With the Fiery Eyes
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From the 15th Century
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Our Lady of Tenderness
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Orthodoxy and Amadeo
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Near Dark
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Near Dark

• Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
• Transformation of the vampire tradition

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Central characters

• Mae
• Caleb
• Sarah and Homer
• Father
• Family

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Conventions

• Attraction (sexual mutualbut she seems
  ambivalent)
  
• Kissing she avoids (ambivalence)
• Contract he commits to joining her for eternity
  (pact motif)
  
• Blood
• Abduction he needs to join, to really join (he
  hasnt turned yet)
  
• He needs nourishment
• He needs to bite/suck to really join the true
  exchange

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Suspense

• Who will be the next victim
• Will Caleb be able to join the group

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Variations

• Mae nourishes him like an IVvein in arm or
  wrist
  
• Complete reversal? No, remember Mina and Dracula
• Exchanges are important
• Vampires travel pack, just like wolves

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Final Conflicts and Resolutions

• Western Genre stylization
• Salvation return to roots restoration of the
  family

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Classic Films

• The Wolf Man, 1941