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...Nick Daly JOSEPH VALENTE, Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. xi + 173, paper, $29.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Out of the Crypt JOSEPH VALENTE, Dracula's Crypt...

... this INS art project at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, where we had this radio transmission unit. It was modeled on [Jean] Cocteau's Orphée , it was modeled on William Burroughs's cutups, and I was reading a lot about the figure of the crypt and the relationship between new media and death...

... in the photo you're seeing is the NSA's headquarters, as captured from a helicopter by the artist Trevor Paglen)? Not even the NSA can decode—parse, trace back into the world, transform into a one-to-one efficient navigational tool with no glitches and blind spots—the hieroglyphics contained in its crypt. Has...

... in bourgeois pri- vacy. But is the social itself not sometimes a crypt from which we might wish to escape? That Kurnick provokes these questions just goes to show how powerfully stimulating his theater is: he makes a reader want to get into the act...

...). Empowered by the Dickensian imagination, its former inhabitants, though now in the family crypt, nevertheless fill the dusty and vacated rooms of Chesney Wold with the clamor of privileged lives once full of possibility. Lest the everyday of another epoch disappear into the vortex of war, 1 as it does...

..., thereby succeeding or failing to form a society at novel’s end. As a test case, I will briefly consider Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, considering how postal communication inflects the novel’s representation of human association. From early in Sense and Sensibility, characters are crypts...

... , Neil . Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space . Oxford: Blackwell, 1984 . Stoker , Bram . Dracula . New York: Penguin, 1993 . Valente , Joseph . Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood . Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002...

... of the Blue: Secrecy, Radical Evil, and the Crypt of Faith.” Futures: Of Jacques Derrida . Ed. Rand Richard . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2001 . 99 – 129 . François Anne-Lise . Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2008 . Goodman Kevis...

... finds an open crypt for shelter, she unzips her jacket and lets the flowers fall to the ground: “The parchments of flowers tumble to the floor and all around her ankles. Bunches and bushes of old carnations and roses and gardenias and magnolias and baby's breath, reduced to their brittle bone stems...

...). The famous web of Middlemarch is emblem for the tightly woven world of Victorian realism; Bulstrode learns the hard way that payback will happen when least expected. In these self-enclosed literary crypts, all actions are consequential. The realist novel, in other words, implicitly promotes belief...

... splendor—“is dark, and without dimension. It has no door. Or any window where you might have entered” (390). And thus no view. It is a virtual crypt—or casket. Yet from the spatial and optical negation of its final (eponymous?) “dark,” still “you” seem, in your death drop, to have been burrowing (“plowing...

... the figure of the crypt. Maisie's "wondering" con- sciousness becomes the medium of a perverse animation, an uncanny crossover or transmutation between animate and inanimate, person and thing. This chias- mic reversal particularly informs the representation of Maisie's mother, Ida Farange, whose...

.... With a hint of titillation, endangerment lends new legitimacy to zoos as engines of species ‘conservation’” ( 104 ). 12 Such, for Lippit, is the lot of the animal in “the crypt of modernity” ( 54 ). Lippit's claim rests on the uncanny ontology of the animal in modern thought. Conceived as undying...

... of Haunting: From Yizhar’s Hirbeh to Yehoshua’s Ruins to Koren’s Crypts .” Jewish Social Studies 18 . 3 ( 2012 ): 55 – 69 . Holtzman Avner . Mapat derakhim: Siporet ‘ivrit ka-yom . Tel Aviv : Hakibbutz ha-meuchad , 2008 . Jameson Fredric . The Antinomies of Realism . New York...

... to London ( Tess 478). With the changing structure of life signified by Tess's own family being uprooted and forced to find a new means of existing that only leads to their past and the family crypt in Kingsbere, the novel elicits uncertainty over the development of life and the new epistemological...