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Paddy Dracula

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I'd Rather Go Beyond the Surface Reading of Dracula

On a surface level, the explicit influences for dracula could easily say that's where prime stoker was taken from. But i'd rather go deeper than that. Creativity and your imagination, it's quite similar to dreaming. And the well of the unconscious mind is a massof force in any type of creativity. So you can't look at the literal influences. You have to look at the artist's life and the cultural context of where, when and where the artist made the folkan art. I want to go beyond the surface reading of dracula and search for the the irishness and the cultural and individual conditions of prem stoke life.

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