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