This week, we conclude our horror unit and our discussion of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with logical fallacies and the limits of rationality, Dracula as a feminist text and Bram Stoker’s Best Joke. How does the tone change in the last act of the novel? How do we contrast Lucy and Mina? What does Van Helsing have to say to the Author’s Note?
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Next week, we begin our unit on Prince Caspian with chapters one through five, live on YouTube on Thursday, December 19th at 8PM Central.
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Footnotes:
- Dracula (Bram Stoker)
- Stars And Swords on YouTube
- True Fact: The Lack of Pirates Is Causing Global Warming (Forbes)
- Spurious Correlations
- Madamina: The Most Beautiful Word
- Vampiric Affinities: Mina Harker and the Paradox of Feminism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- Don’t You Know Me By Now?
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