The paper examines the relationship between power, knowledge, and language in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight from the vantage point of discourses on vampirism. Based on Michel Foucault’s notion of power as a localized, ubiquitous, and heterogeneous set of social strategies, it discusses the constitutive role of language in the construction of power relationships, focusing ...

The “Dracula urbanism” conception seeks to identify destructive transformation underway in cities under the guise of “smart city” movement. According Wilson and Wyly assessment trends Flint, Michigan Jakarta, Indonesia (but by implication occurring on a global scale), an exploitative “real estate state” is systematically rooting out all traces decay (and poor) not only purify environment but al...

The paper entitled ‘Finding Out Why Bram Stoker Wrote ‘Dracula’ is actually a research work inspired by the circumstances surrounding publication of book. article proposes to find out what write novel stature ‘Dracula’. Reading through several manuscripts, journals and online materials one can conclude that took lot trouble publish his work. He researched widely went places before finally decid...

The Castlevania games are not designed to scare the player, but they resort to elements from horror literature and film, including references to Bram Stoker’s novel and using characters from monster movies as level bosses. Horror conventions are used as cues to build the gameworld and to understand the game design, and how the player appropriates some of those conventions to empower herself in ...