Study Guide: First Exam,  315 Russian Folklore (Official Version)
Exam will be at 3:30; leave quietly when you finish.  Class will begin again at 4:30.

The exam will consist of matching, identification, multiple choice, and short answer items (where "short" means anything from one or two words to three or four sentences).

Films:

Discovery Channel documentary on Vlad Dracula and Elizabeth Bathory

Viy (main characters? what do they do? what happens in the story? is there any vampirism in the story?)

Mario Bava's film about the Werdulak family (from Black Sabbath)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (ignore this one for now; we didn't get that far in class)

Nosferatu (director? main actor? characterization of Harker? Renfield? Dracula [originally Count Orlok]? fidelity to book?); the word "Nosferatu" is of uncertain origin (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_%28word%29)

Leptirica (Serbian TV film)

Topics: be able to define or characterize, and indicate “who, what, when, and why important”

Romanticism

Dvoeverie

The Gothic

Folklore

Vampire: definition, features, vulnerabilities; behavior

Religious symbols

Natural remedies

Relevant animals

Werewolf: definition, features, behavior and vulnerabilities

Lycanthropy

Poltergeist

Ghoul

Psychic vampire

Shapeshifting

Features of East European folklore vampires

Countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (can you find the Balkans on a map? are the country borders the same as they were in the 1700s and 1800s? what areas have we been focusing on in class?)

Relevant religions: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, pre-Christian belief structures

Goethe, Burger, Byron, Polidori contributions to vampire lore

Historical Figures:

Prince Vseslav of Polotsk

Vlad Ţepeş

Elizabeth Bathory

Peter Stubbe

Arnold Paul, Peter Plogojowich, Lastovo Island trial

Bram Stoker

Nikolai Gogol

Alexei Tolstoi

Dom Calmet

Murnau

Max Schreck, Boris Karloff

Readings:

All readings relating to the historical figures and trials (e.g. Vlad the Impaler, Peter Stubbe, Lastovo Island)

Slavic mythology (Machal)

Folk stories: The Wedding Guests, Bucket of Blood, The Werewolf's Daughters

Polidori's “The Vampyre” and Byron's vampire story (draft)

Gogol’s “Viy”

Tolstoi's "The Family of the Vurdalak"

Le Fanu's Carmilla

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Chapters 1-13.