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Possible sources for "La Morte Amoureuse"

Anastasaki, Elena."The Trials and Tribulations of the Revenants: Narrative Techniques and the Fragmented Hero in Mary Shelley and Théophile Gautier." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 16.1-3 (2006-2007): 26-46.

Crichfield, Grant. "Decamps, Orientalist Intertext, and Counter-Discourse in Gautier's Constantinople." Decamps, Orientalist Intertext, and Counter-Discourse in Gautier's ConstantinopleNineteenth-Century French Studies 21.3-4 (1993 Spring-Summer): 305-321.

Downing, Lisa. "Gendered Constructions of the Nightmare in French Nineteenth-Century Medical Writing and Fantastic Fiction." French Studies: A Quarterly Review 66.3 (2012 July): 331-346.

Icoz, Nursel. "The Un-Dead: To Be Feared or/and Pitied." In Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, edited by Day, Peter, 209-226. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2006.

Marino, Virginia M. "The Devil's Discourse: The Meeting of Allegory and the Fantastic." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 8.3 [31] (1997): 331-346.

Response: Good choices of work, although the Crichfield one is less likely to be pertinent.

Ways to possibly improve the "Dead in Love" Wiki article:

*use more analysis of the significance of having a vampire as part of the plot

• go further into as to why it is categorized as a Fantasy

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Greg feedback:

I agree with your ideas of how the article could be improved, and great job finding some solid sources.

It might be a good idea to further flesh out how would like to see "more analysis" or us to "go further" with certain aspects: e.g. should we add new sections to the article or would it be better to just add more to the ones currently there? Is it worth exploring the historical context of vampire stories at the time? etc

Do you think any parts of the current article should be removed due to lack of relevance? If so, your sources could help replace them with better information about the piece.

It seems like the next step would be to match the sources you found with the information we should add to the article. In other words, thinking about what part of the article each source helps to improve.

Great additions overall >>>>>>>>> Reply to Greg: Those were my initial ideas to the proposal, and my actual addition is the portion below my comment that I had... The part with "Downing, Lisa" -Michelle 9/5/2016 9:16pm

Re: Proposed Edits - While the vampire-as-plot-point could be beefed up, you'd need to be paraphrasing a source. Remember, no original research here.

August 23, 2016 Assignment:

--Michelledapyon (talk) 04:18, 6 September 2016 (UTC)Downing, Lisa. "Gendered Constructions of the Nightmare in French Nineteenth-Century Medical Writing and Fantastic Fiction." French Studies: A Quarterly Review 66.3 (2012 July): 331-346.

Dreams and nightmares are common subjects in one's culture. Depending on the subject of one's dreams, people would try to analyze them through scientific means. Nightmares on the other hand would be considered to be in relation to demons and sometimes in subject of a psychological disorder. Lisa Downing argues that the French fantastique tries to rationalize what is happening, such as distinguishing what is real and not real according to what the society believed at that time. The tale of nightmares goes back to the ancient Greece. The term "incubus" and "succubus" has originated by combining the term "concubinus" (concubine) and the term "concumbre" (to lie alongside). Therefore, the idea of a demon that comes to lie with one at night is not necessarily a new idea. These nocturnal demons are typically associated with erotic dreams, such as what Romuald has similarly experienced.

This section above is my proposed edit to add to the Analysis and Significance section of the article of La Morte Amoureuse as a sub section of "Dream culture" or something of that sort.