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With Dracula in the public domain, in the years since 1962 a wide variety of adaptations of the text have been made primarily aimed at introducing Dracula to younger readers. These adaptations include simple abridged editions of the text to adaptations that include significant rewritings by specialists in language and texts for children and/or those learning English as a second language of varying reading levels. The different juvenile editions have ... occasioned the emergence of many artists to render further interpretations of Dracula from simple line drawings to full color illustrations. The first adaptation of Dracula for children appears to have been made in 1965 in an abbreviated volume that also contained adaptations of the several other famous monster horror stories.
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More importantly, Dracula and Buffy are ... participants in a carnival that rails against a third force. This force is exerted by those who seek a clear delineation between the two texts, and who elevates Dracula to the level of high and/or respectable culture (art) and Buffy to that of low and/or disposable (popular) culture– a force which insists on valuing the novel over a television show, and that values the historical over the contemporary. By playing out these roles (high vs. low), the episode, in typically postmodern fashion, undermines the notion of such a hierarchy while simultaneously arguing for the validity and value of both texts. [12]
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Once in the public domain, Dracula was immediately seized upon as a source for children's literature, and numerous abridged versions, with some of the more gory scenes appropriately cut, have been published as books for children and youth. These texts grade into the many abridgments for use in language teaching.
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EM: Thirty years ago hardly anyone considered Dracula a novel worthy of scholarly analysis. But that has changed. What happened? First of all, postmodernism has brought with it a challenge to the concept of a traditional literary canon and a reluctance to privilege one literary text over another. This has had significant implications for the whole field of Gothic literature (as well as science fiction and other previously neglected genres).
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