A university lecturer hopes the undead can liven up English literature for the 'Twilight' generation.
Variety's on this English menu : have fun practising ! ~~~ Progresse en anglais au fil des divers articles et supports :-)
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As usual, the VAMPIRES page on Michelle Henry's precious website provides you numerous resources... but not the ones I'm recommending now (I've just checked :-) : "Bloody Vampires !" displays a brief webography which includes the 5 articles / hilarious video / graph parody that I've been selecting today... I do hope you'll enjoy them !
"Stephen King explains how to make vampires 'scary again' "
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[...] "Here's what vampires shouldn't be : pallid detectives who drink Bloody Marys and work only at night ; lovelorn southern gentlemen ; anorexic teenage girls ; boy-toys with big dewy eyes," writes Stephen King in the introduction to his move into original comic book writing, American Vampire. "What should they be ? Killers, honey." [...] from 'The Guardian' - September 30, 2010
Many teachers have had their students study "Twilight", "Dracula", "Interview with a vampire" or other 'vampire stories'... and the students did enjoy the subject ! Here are a few articles on this fad for vampire stories, be they books or films. I think these articles are quite interesting... hope you'll enyoy them as much as I did ;o)
"Vampires Suck - Actually, They don't. And That's the Problem"
by Grady Hendrix - on Slate (July 28, 2009)
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"Vampire Literature : the Crisis of Being Human"
October 31, 2009 - fro'Battleofideas' website
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from the 'New York Times' - OpEd by G. Del Toro & C. Hogan (July 30, 2009)
"University Conference Sinks its Teeth into Vampire Fiction"
A university lecturer hopes the undead can liven up English literature for the 'Twilight' generation.
As English teachers write rather academic English I wonder whether I ought to let such a film title show up here... just joking, for the film is too funny not to mention it 
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Eventually click on this graph to view one of the latest vampire novelists's know-how 
There is a small spelling mistake in this bar chart : it is in the bars caption : can you find it ?!
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