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Offline Mark Rainey

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Dark Shadows University
« on: September 02, 2002, 02:05:29 AM »
Here's a first:

I happened to find the following on the Web; apparently it's a class schedule for Vermont University:

<<ENGLISH 1106: ANALYTICAL READING AND WRITING
TOPIC: THE BYRONIC VAMPIRE IN LITERATURE AND FILM
SPRING 2002
MR. MANN

TEXTS:
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice.
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories - Ed. Alan Ryan.
Byron's Poetry - Ed. Frank D. McConnell.
Dreams of the Dark - Stephen Mark Rainey and Elizabeth Massie.

FILMS:
Bram Stoker's Dracula
House of Dark Shadows
Interview with the Vampire

COURSE FOCUS:
The short stories, poems, films, and novels we will focus on all deal with the vampire in one way or another. Why is this fictional creature so perennially fascinating? How has the literary figure of the Byronic hero influenced many depictions of the undead? How have authors and filmmakers used it as a metaphor for human interactions? How similar is the fictional vampire to its folkloric antecedents? Why has the vampire metamorphosed from a hideous monster to a romantic hero? This course will concentrate on research and class discussions in an attempt to answer some of these questions. In doing so, we will learn more about analytical reading and writing, intertextuality, and our own culture.>>

What I'd give to have been able to listen in on that class. Far as I know, it's the only time something I've written has been part of a college course. ;)

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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2002, 02:41:00 AM »
Congratulations Mark! [thumb]

I also would have like to sat in on this course...
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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2002, 03:02:32 AM »

I never went to college, but that sounds like a class I wouldn't mind attending!
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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2002, 04:03:58 AM »
Dear Mark,
That is so cool that Dreams of the Dark is part of
the reading material for that college class!
Congratulations :) Those lucky students are most
likely happy as clams to have a great novel to read.
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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2002, 04:38:05 AM »
That sounds like a great class--one I really wish that I could have taken in college.

Congratulations on being included on the class reading list. [hello]

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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2002, 04:50:15 AM »
Wow Mark that's cool![coolb]

finishing up my BSN and need to one more elective
think i can commute from Boston to take this one!

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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2002, 05:57:07 AM »
Good show, Mark!

You should contact the university and see if they'd like a guest speaker sometime.
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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2002, 07:10:33 AM »
Wonderful, exciting news! I couldn't be more happier for you... congratulations!!
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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2002, 07:15:01 AM »
Who says, We don't need no Edumacation anyhow?  Looks like you and Beth have made your "Mark" on higher edumacation!  Mucho Congrats!!!![/color]

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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2002, 08:08:14 AM »
That's great news, Mark!  Way to go! [thumb]    

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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2002, 08:17:42 AM »
Thanks for all the congratz. What I find most interesting is that there's a whole semester course devoted to literary vampires (and a pretty decent range of literature to draw from). I see that the course is numbered English 1106, so I'm guessing this may be for a graduate elective course or something such. I wish I'd been able to have such a choice when I was in college! At least in my regular lit courses I did get to read some really interesting stuff, and did actually discover (and re-discover) a few of my all-time favorite novels and short stories in them, such as The Three Musketeers (to this day my favorite novel) and various works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor, Voltaire, and the inevitable Edgar Allan Poe.

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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2002, 08:51:34 AM »
WOW!!  That is great news Mark!!  Congratulations!!
Gee, why couldn't school topics be this interesting when I was there??   Sounds like a facinating topic!
Way to go!! [hello] [hello]
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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2002, 09:57:59 AM »
Mark...

That must have been quite a rush - seeing your book listed!  [thumb]

Ah!  We have a famous author in our midst.  (Growing famous-er and famous-er every day).
And it just goes to prove...
Once you learn to write good, can't nobody change it!

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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2002, 10:24:43 AM »
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

How did you ever happen to find that?!!!  You ought to drop in some day.  Sounds like a fun course.
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Re: Dark Shadows University
« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2002, 04:39:03 PM »
Oh, wow, Mark, that's fab-u-lous!  I agree--you should offer yourself as a guest speaker--not only are you the author of one of their class texts, you're a DS expert.  

Why didn't we have classes that interesting when *I* went to college?  

Then again, "Sex in Cinema" sure was a goodie!  I almost forgot that one.  And "Human Sexuality"--also known to us as "Nuts 'n' Sluts"!  

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