The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula Tales
The article explores the literary and artistic traditions around Vlad III (alias Dracula), Prince of Wallachia, which started circulating about him in the second half of the fifteenth century. His proverbial ruthlessness and cruelty gained him a name among the most vicious historical figures already...
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| description | The article explores the literary and artistic traditions around Vlad III (alias Dracula), Prince of Wallachia, which started circulating about him in the second half of the fifteenth century. His proverbial ruthlessness and cruelty gained him a name among the most vicious historical figures already during his lifetime. This study examines how, by imitating and rewriting contemporary literary topoi, the authors created the image of the voivode as the cruel tyrant and the persecutor of Christians. By comparing the German and Russian versions of the Dracula tales, we tried to prove that the Russian author also incorporated the political ideology of his era in the Russian Dracula stories. The analysis relies on three sources: the Sankt-Gallen manuscript (1461), the verse chronicle of Michael Beheim (1416?–1479?), and Skazanie o Drakule voivode (1486). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ad620447eada414fbcec1b1e4a6e1dc92025-08-20T03:39:40ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteratureStudia Litterarum2500-42472541-85642024-09-0193569510.22455/2500-4247-2024-9-3-56-95The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula TalesLevente Nagy0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3266-5061Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HungaryThe article explores the literary and artistic traditions around Vlad III (alias Dracula), Prince of Wallachia, which started circulating about him in the second half of the fifteenth century. His proverbial ruthlessness and cruelty gained him a name among the most vicious historical figures already during his lifetime. This study examines how, by imitating and rewriting contemporary literary topoi, the authors created the image of the voivode as the cruel tyrant and the persecutor of Christians. By comparing the German and Russian versions of the Dracula tales, we tried to prove that the Russian author also incorporated the political ideology of his era in the Russian Dracula stories. The analysis relies on three sources: the Sankt-Gallen manuscript (1461), the verse chronicle of Michael Beheim (1416?–1479?), and Skazanie o Drakule voivode (1486).https://studlit.ru/images/2024-9-3/03_Nagy.pdfmichael beheimgerman and russian dracula talesliterary toposliterary propagandabody in middle age |
| spellingShingle | Levente Nagy The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula Tales Studia Litterarum michael beheim german and russian dracula tales literary topos literary propaganda body in middle age |
| title | The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula Tales |
| title_full | The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula Tales |
| title_fullStr | The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula Tales |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula Tales |
| title_short | The Tyrant and the Saint: Cruelty, Ambivalence, Humour in the Earliest Dracula Tales |
| title_sort | tyrant and the saint cruelty ambivalence humour in the earliest dracula tales |
| topic | michael beheim german and russian dracula tales literary topos literary propaganda body in middle age |
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