5/13/2023 0 Comments Vampires Today by Joseph LaycockFiction like Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the novels of Anne Rice soon come under consideration as well. “The first three weeks,” says Laycock, “are spent on Slavic studies, anthropology and psychoanalysis-the basis for a tool kit that students can use to approach vampires, or other topics in the humanities.” That means looking at sources ranging from Freud and Jung to anthropologists studying the folklore of medieval Eastern European villages. That’s the conclusion you might well draw from an Experimental College course this semester, “Vampires in Civilization.” Led by Joseph Laycock, author of Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism (Praeger, 2009), the class takes a serious, scholarly and sometimes unexpected approach to understanding the undead. Do what you will-don a crucifix, ring your windows with garlic garlands, sharpen your wooden stakes.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |