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Deconstructing Dracula

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19970401
Author:C Carr

WHY ARE INTELLECTUALS INTERESTED IN BRAM STOKER'S VICTORIAN POTBOILER?

Nobody dressed for the party. Had Count Dracula materialized to toast his own 100th birthday, he would have been the only one in fangs. Last weekend's NYU conference marking the centennial of Bram Stoker's classic Victorian tale wasn't designed for goths. The $145 admission fee worked like a cross and a garlic clove to repel them. Apart from an older man in a Vlad Dracula T-shirt (who works in publishing), and a woman in a bat-festooned blouse (who works at NYU), the crowd seemed composed of intent academics. Meanwhile, ...

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