ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Narration, Renfield, Symbolic Link
Document Summary
Born into a protestant family in ireland. The dead return to claim a debt from those who have survived them (unfinished business) Uncanny ghosts are the fear of death literally rising. Epistolary novel: written as a set of documents (letters) Composed of memorandums, telegrams, title- deeds of property, railway timetables, dictionaries, newspaper cuttings, monumental inscriptions, notebooks, phonographically recorded case notes of psychiatry, and a ship log. No external third person omniscient narrator (like j&h does) Bringing vampire folklore into a literary mode similar to the documents in the novel. P. 4 how these papers who made them the narrative has been edited, trying to make it believable but they tell us it is unbelievable. Justifies the fact that there are multiple narrators. Recording memos is like a stream of consciousness. Technology is modernity trying to replace folklore, establish a realist setting. Jonathan"s diary is written in shorthand so dracula cannot read it.
