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dc.contributor.authorGeorge, Samantha
dc.contributor.editorCrisan, Marius
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-11T16:25:32Z
dc.date.available2018-04-11T16:25:32Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-01
dc.identifier.citationGeorge , S 2017 , Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany . in M Crisan (ed.) , Dracula: An International Perspective . 1st. edn , Palgrave Gothic , Palgrave Macmillan , Cham , pp. 69-95 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63366-4
dc.identifier.isbn9783319633657
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-63366-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/19976
dc.descriptionSam George, 'Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany', in Marius-Mircea Crisan, ed., Dracula: An International Perspective, 1st Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. Under embargo until 1 December 2020. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319633657.
dc.description.abstractWe may question the representation of Bram Stoker’s and Robert Browning’s Transylvania but we need to be careful with our contemporary desire to tie the texts too closely to their socio-historical contexts. This approach has proved insightful with regard to otherness, but it can constitute an attempt to rationalise the gothic elements of a novel or fairy tale, dispelling, too, the enchantment evoked in the phrase ‘once upon a time’. Viewed in this way, we can concur with Bloch that ‘literary activity becomes a special form of dream work’. Our understanding of these texts is enhanced if we are able to set a reading which uncovers the progressive potential of their visionary character against the kinds of reading which situates them in location and history and uncovers their social function. This is, following Fredric Jameson, to consider the dialectic between the ‘utopian’ (after Bloch) and the ideological.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.relation.ispartofDracula: An International Perspective
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPalgrave Gothic
dc.subjectDracula
dc.subjectTransylvania
dc.subjectPied Piper
dc.titleSpirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germanyen
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Humanities
dc.contributor.institutionEnglish Literature and Creative Writing
dc.contributor.institutionEnglish Literature
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