{"id":504,"date":"2025-05-17T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/?p=504"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:58:53","slug":"engl-100-006-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/2025\/05\/17\/engl-100-006-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGL 100\/006 (September 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ENGL 100\/006: Reading and Writing About Language and Literatures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vampires on Page and Screen: Transfusions and Transmutations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Term 1 MWF 2:00-3:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u201cI am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.\u201d &#8211; Bram Stoker, <em>Dracula<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This course examines adaptations in something of the way vampire transformations work, by considering how elements of appearance remain but the resulting creature is always radically different. We\u2019ll go in prepared, not with stakes and garlic but with the critical and theoretical tools needed to move beyond popular online discussions and enable consideration of various questions arising in creating through adaptation a separate text in a different genre. Our approach will be in literary and cultural studies rather than film studies, as we consider why stories about vampires, the blood-drinking immortals of myth and legend &#8211; and more recently of fiction and film &#8211; fascinate us and whether visualizing them using an existing narrative results in a transfusion, a transformation, or both.<\/p>\n<p>Core texts tentatively include two novels, J. Sheridan LeFanu\u2019s <em>Carmilla<\/em> and Bram Stoker\u2019s <em>Dracula<\/em>, and three film adaptations: one of <em>Carmilla<\/em> and two of <em>Dracula<\/em> (to be determined by class vote), as well as Gardner and Diaz, <em>Reading and Writing About Literature<\/em> (6th edition). Through readings in current criticism and theory, we will develop strategies for textual analysis in literary and cultural studies. We will also consider the difficulty, if not impossibility, of reaching a \u201cfixed\u201d or consensus reading of any text.<\/p>\n<p>Evaluation will tentatively be based on a midterm essay and a term paper (both requiring secondary academic research), a final reflection essay, and participation in discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGL 100\/006: Reading and Writing About Language and Literatures Vampires on Page and Screen: Transfusions and Transmutations Term 1 MWF 2:00-3:00 p.m. \u201cI am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/2025\/05\/17\/engl-100-006-september-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/drgmbaxter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}