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Dracula and the rights of hospitality: The axis of evil [PDF]
The present essay explores the archetype of Dracula, as well as its connection to hospitality. Although abundant literature has described the historical context that led Bram Stoker to present this personage, less attention has been paid to the ...
Korstanje, Maximiliano E.
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Eye dialect: translating the untranslatable [PDF]
The term ‘eye dialect’ was first coined in 1925 by George P. Krapp in The English Language in America (McArthur 1998). The term was used to describe the phenomenon of unconventional spelling used to reproduce colloquial usage. When one encounters such
Brett, David Finbar
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Substitution and Complementarity in the Consumption of Alcohol, Cannabis, and Opium
ABSTRACT Understanding the behavior of populations of drug consumers has been and remains a topic of keen interest. Using a unique dataset on 25 districts from Bengal, India, from 1911 to 1925, we analyze whether populations of consumers treat alcohol, cannabis, and opium as economic substitutes or complements in a legal regime.
Siddharth Chandra, Gaurav Doshi
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A hundred years separate two of the most successful masterpieces of English Gothic Fiction: The Monk (1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis and Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker.
Paolo Pepe
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Victorian and Edwardian Virtual Reality: from Stoker to Forster
Fantasies of global transmission haunted the Victorian era, as demonstrated by one of George Du Maurier’s cartoons. Dracula engages with transmission in a dual way, turning Mina’s mind into a radio-system which the Count may switch on and off, whereas ...
Catherine Lanone
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The Blitz Gothic: War and Language in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover"
The paper intends to explore Elizabeth Bowen’s stylistic choices in her wartime short story, The Demon Lover (1945), wherein the experience of war is rendered in gothic form as a supernatural occurrence.
Florina Năstase
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Author recognition using Locality Sensitive Hashing & Alergia (Stochastic Finite Automata) [PDF]
In today’s world data grows very fast. It is difficult to answer questions like 1) Is the content completely written by this author, 2) Did he get few sentences or pages from another author, 3) Is there any way to identify actual author.
Sandela, Prashanth
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Schematic representation of the relevance of holding time in measurements involving pressure effects on protein structure. Pressure is represented generically by a press. Protein molecules are depicted in green, and the shortening of the range of interaction is shown through shorter distances between protein molecules.
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Guía por las lindes transilvanas [PDF]
Paul EluardRecorrer ahora el territorio dejado por Bram Stoker y su novela Drácula -a cien años de su primera edición- resulta sin duda caminar por las alucinantes fronteras del mundo delirante del vampiro como el hijo con- sentido de la nocturnidad y de
Rafael Guillermo Serrano
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Everyman with fangs: The acceptance of the modern vampire [PDF]
The vampire, an enduring demon from the European middle ages has through the course of the 20th century undergone a journey of transformation. The journey of the beast describes a circle, starting and ending with the depiction of the vampire as a ...
Cardow, Andrew
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