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Twilight Book Talk
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer About: Twilight, published in 2005, is the fi rst of a four-book Young Adult series. Written by Stephenie Meyer, the book tells a Romeo and Juliet-esque love story between a teenage girl, Bella, and a Vampire, Edward. Th e book has spent several weeks/months on the New York Times best-seller list, as well as received many other praises. Twilight has also recently been made into a major motion picture that will be avail- able on DVD in March. Meyer, a mother of three and member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said the idea for the book came to her in a dream, “In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. Th e other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. Th ey were discussing the diffi culties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a diffi cult time restraining himself from killing her immediately.” (www.stepheniemeyer.com) Length: 498 Pages Location: Mostly Forks, WA, and surrounding area, but some time spent in Phoenix, AZ Recommended Reading Age: 13-14 years old and up (due to some graphic violence and some mature content) Characters: Th e Humans: Isabella “Bella” Swan: 17 years old. Th e main female character of the story. Perceptive to the needs of others, introverted, awkward, curious, self-described as “average-looking.” Daughter of divorced parents, Charlie and Renee. -
Constructing Conservative Youth Ideology in the Twilight Series
Wesleyan University The Honors College Happily (For)ever After: Constructing Conservative Youth Ideology in the Twilight Series by Julia Pearlman Class of 2010 A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in American Studies Middletown, Connecticut April, 2010 Table of Contents Acknowledgments........................................................................................................2 Introduction:................................................................................................................4 Chapter One: Biting, Sucking, Drinking Human Animal Blood; The Vampires of Twilight........................................................................................................................15 Chapter Two: What Big Teeth You Have; Twilight as Fairy Tale........................33 Chapter Three: Teen Sexuality, Gender and Vampires; Meyer’s Moral Motherhood................................................................................................................48 Chapter Four: Jacob Black: Native American, Wolf, “Other”; Race and Class in Twilight........................................................................................................................75 Conclusion:.................................................................................................................91 Works Cited................................................................................................................95 -
New Moon Book Talk
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer About: New Moon is the sequel to Twilight. Meyer, a mother of three and member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said the idea for the book came to her in a dream, “In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. Th e other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. Th ey were discussing the diffi culties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particu- larly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a diffi cult time restraining himself from killing her immediately.” (www.stepheniemeyer.com) Length: 563 Pages Location: Mostly Forks and La Push, WA, and some time spent in Italy Recommended Reading Age: 13-14 years and up (due to some graphic violence and mature content) Characters: Th e Humans: Isabella “Bella” Swan: 17 years old. Th e main female character of the story. Perceptive to the needs of others, introverted, awkward, curious, self-described as “average-looking.” Daughter of divorced parents, Charlie and Renee. Charlie Swan: Father of Bella and Police Chief of Forks, WA. Quiet, loves to fi sh and watch sports. Renee: Bella’s mother. Flighty and a worrywart. Married to Phil. Lives in Florida. Angela, Mike, Lauren, Jessica, Tyler, and Eric: Students at Forks High School and friends of Bella’s. Th e Quileute Tribe/Werewolves: All the members of the Quileute tribes live on a reservation near La Push, WA. -
Twilight Saga
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by OTHES DIPLOMARBEIT Titel der Diplomarbeit Tracing Female Subjectivity and Self-affirmation in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga Verfasserin Astrid Ernst angestrebter akademischer Grad Magistra der Philosophie (Mag.phil.) Wien, 2011 Studienkennzahl lt. Studienblatt: A 343 Studienrichtung lt. Studienblatt: Anglistik und Amerikanistik (Diplom) Betreuerin Ao. Univ.- Prof. Mag. Dr. Eva Müller-Zettelmann 1 Table of Contents 1. Introduction.......................................................................................................3 2. Tracing Bella’s Subjectivity: Ideal Love as the Only Way Out..........................4 3. Edward and Jacob: Magnets with reversed polarities or two poles of Bella’s existence?.......................................................................................................12 4. The Cullen Vampires: the ideal family and its enemies..................................20 4.1. Carlisle Cullen......................................................................................20 4.2. Esme Cullen.........................................................................................23 4.3. Rosalie Cullen......................................................................................25 4.4. Alice Cullen..........................................................................................28 4.5. The Cullens’ Enemies..........................................................................30 5. Quileute Legends: -
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Twilight Is One of the Most Popular Movies of This Year That Ever Produced. Th
1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Twilight is one of the most popular movies of this year that ever produced. The screenplay of this film is adapted from the novel with the same title written by Stephenie Meyer. Stephenie Meyer is an American author best known for her vampire romance series Twilight who was born on December 24, 1973 in Hartford. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition, won multiple literary awards and sold over 85million copies worldwide, with translation into 37 different languages. Meyer is also the author of the adult science-fiction novel The Host (2008). Following the success of Twilight (2005), Meyer expended the story into a series three more books: New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), and Breaking Down (2008). She also writes short stories which one of them published in Prom Nights from Hell, a collection stories about bad prom nights with supernatural effects. It has been released in April 2007. Twilight movie is directed by Catherine Hardwicke, an American production designer and film director and screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg. Twilight is better known as the maker romance and fantasy film, sometimes centering on vampire society’s life. Twilight is a 2008 romantic fantasy film. It is the first film in The Twilight saga film series. Twilight focuses on the development of a personal relationship between human teenager Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen and the subsequent efforts of Cullen and his family to keep Swan safe from a separate group of hostile vampires. Seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan moves to Forks, a small town near Washington State’s rugged coast, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother remarries to a minor league baseball player. -
Joseph Smith Sparkles: Twilight and Mormon Theology
The Kabod Volume 6 Issue 2 Spring 2020 Article 3 February 2020 Joseph Smith Sparkles: Twilight and Mormon Theology Natalie Hathcote [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/kabod Recommended Citations MLA: Hathcote, Natalie "Joseph Smith Sparkles: Twilight and Mormon Theology," The Kabod 6. 2 (2020) Article 3. Liberty University Digital Commons. Web. [xx Month xxxx]. APA: Hathcote, Natalie (2020) "Joseph Smith Sparkles: Twilight and Mormon Theology" The Kabod 6( 2 (2020)), Article 3. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/kabod/vol6/iss2/3 Turabian: Hathcote, Natalie "Joseph Smith Sparkles: Twilight and Mormon Theology" The Kabod 6 , no. 2 2020 (2020) Accessed [Month x, xxxx]. Liberty University Digital Commons. This Individual Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Crossing. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kabod by an authorized editor of Scholars Crossing. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hathcote: Joseph Smith Sparkles: <i>Twilight</i> and Mormon Theology Hathcote 1 Natalie Hathcote Dr. Prior ENGL 306—Women’s Literature 3 December 2019 Joseph Smith Sparkles: Twilight and Mormon Theology Few works inspired as much contention as Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga, a tetralogy expanded annually from 2005 to 2008. The books, which follow the passionate relationship between Bella Swan, an average human girl, and Edward Cullen, a heavily idealized vampire, boast a somewhat complex critical and cultural history. What began as a popular series among young women turned into a veritable pop culture phenomenon, leading to a tug of war between consumers and critics: the books were instant, record-setting bestsellers with a large, dedicated, and obsessive fanbase. -
Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative
Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative Grietje Dresen 1 Introduction I’d never given much thought to how I would die. But dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go. These sentences, pronounced by protagonist Bella Swan in the overture to the first Twilight film, are a forecast of things to come. Above all, they forecast the role Bella is going to play throughout the Twilight Saga, willingly sacrificing (or at least risking) her life for the ones she loves: For her mother, her beloved vampire fiancé Edward, and her unborn, half-vampire child. The sentences in the overture echo the Preface in the first Twilight novel, where the same thoughts are expressed in the context of a mysterious scene in which the ‘I’-figure (appear- ing to be Bella) is being threatened by a ‘hunter’. In the prologue to the film, this impression of being hunted is symbolized by the accompanying imagery, show- ing a defenceless deer chased through a dark wood. In this chapter, I intend to analyse the sacrificial scripts that underlie the storyline in the Twilight Saga, an immensely popular vampire narrative devoured by millions of mainly female adolescents all over the world. From the moment I saw the first Twilight screenplay together with my daughter, I was struck by Bella’s unhesitating willingness to sacrifice her life, announced (in Bella’s voice) in the prologue. Of course my view is affected by the fact that I am a scholar of religion, and a gender scholar too. -
The Twilight of Vampires: Byronic Heroes and the Evolution of Vampire Fiction in the Vampire Diaries and Twilight
The Twilight of Vampires: Byronic Heroes and the Evolution of Vampire Fiction in The Vampire Diaries and Twilight El crepúsculo de los vampiros: héroes byronianos y la evolución de la narrativa de vampiros en The Vampire Diaries y Crepúsculo M. Carmen Gómez Galisteo UNED [email protected] Recibido 29 diciembre 2015 Aceptado 1 noviembre 2016 Resumen La narrativa adolescente de vampiros contemporánea ha contribuido a revitalizar el género al atraer a una nueva generación de lectores. En el proceso, la figura del vampiro ha sido sometida a una serie de cambios con el objeto de hacerla más atractiva para una audiencia adolescente predominantemente femenina. Coincidiendo con el décimo aniversario de la publicación de Crepúsculo de Stephenie Meyer, este artículo analiza cómo la saga Crepúsculo y las Crónicas Vampíricas de L. J. Smith modernizan al héroe byroniano que inspiró en gran medida a los vampiros. Este artículo también explora los posibles efectos de esta nueva caracterización del vampiro en las mentes de los lectores y la alarma que ha causado. Palabras clave: Vampiros, literatura de vampiros, héroe byroniano, impacto literario, adolescentes. Abstract Contemporary teenage vampire fiction has helped revitalize the genre by attracting a new generation of readers. In so doing, some changes have been introduced so as to make the figure of the vampire more appealing to a largely female teenage readership. Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the publication of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, this article analyzes how the Twilight series and the earlier The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith update 158 Verbeia 2017 ISSN 2444-1333 Año III, Número 2, 158-173 Mª Carmen Gómez Galisteo The Twilight of Vampires … and modernize the Byronic hero on which vampires are largely modeled. -
Is the Twilight Saga a Modern-Time Fairy Tale? a Study of Stephenie Meyer’S Source Material from Folklore and Canonical Narratives
Shiri Rosenberg Is the Twilight Saga a Modern-Time Fairy Tale? A Study of Stephenie Meyer’s Source Material from Folklore and Canonical Narratives Abstract: The article presents an analysis of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels as modern literary fairy-tales. To this end, the discussion will refer to structuralist critics, and identify “narrative functions” from folktales (stock images and episodes, stock character functions, characteristic sequences of episodes), used by Meyer in her vampire novels. As it turns out, Meyer modified folklore material to sustain a long and variously themed narrative: by embedding numerous subplots, by rearranging functions between characters, and creating composite and collective characters that combine contradictory functions. The author transformed several folktales into a series of four novels about coming of age in the twenty-first-century United States. A detailed analysis of Meyer’s modifications of the folktale partially corroborates the feminist critique of Meyer’s representation of the protagonists as reinforced versions of cultural stereotypes and gender roles. However, some transformations, especially Meyer’s assignment of the hero-function to the female protagonist Bella, seem to suggest just the opposite, thus leading to the conclusion that the Twilight novels reflect the confusion caused by contradictory role-models and aspirations, the confusion that seems to be inherent in a coming-of-age novel. Keywords: Stephanie Meyer, Twilight, fairy tale, folklore, structuralism “I decided it didn’t matter. It doesn’t matter to me what you are.” —Bella Swan in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight In his seminal 1977 monograph on the literary fairy tale (Kunstmarchen), Jens Tismar set down the principles for a definition of the genre: firstly, it can be differentiated from the oral folk tale (Volksmarchen) because it is written by an author, rather than developed as folk tradition. -
ANXIETY of ISABELLA SWAN on LOOSING HER LOVE in CHRIST WEITZ’S NEW MOON MOVIE: a PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
ANXIETY OF ISABELLA SWAN ON LOOSING HER LOVE IN CHRIST WEITZ’s NEW MOON MOVIE: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH RESEARCH PAPER Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of Requirement for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education in English Department by: APRILIANI DEVI TUNJUNGSARI A 320 060 066 ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA 2010 APPROVAL ANXIETY OF ISABELLA SWAN ON LOOSING HER LOVE IN CHRIST WEITZ’s NEW MOON MOVIE: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH by: APRILIANI DEVI TUNJUNGSARI A 320 060 066 Approved to be Examined by Consultant Team Consultant I Consultant II Drs. Abdillah Nugraha, M. Hum Titis Setyabudi, S.S NIK. 589 NIK. 948 ii ACCEPTANCE ANXIETY OF ISABELLA SWAN ON LOOSING HER LOVE IN CHRIST WEITZ’s NEW MOON MOVIE: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH by: APRILIANI DEVI TUNJUNGSARI A 320 060 066 Accepted by the Board of Examiners School of Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta Teams of Examiners 1. Drs. Abdillah Nugraha, M. Hum ( ) Chair Person 2. Titis Setyabudi, S.S ( ) Secretary 3. Dr. Phil. Dewi Candraningrum, S.Pd, M. Ed ( ) Member School of Teacher Training and Education Dean, Dr. H Sofyan Anif, M.Si NIP. 547 iii TESTIMONY Herewith, I testify that in this research paper, there is no plagiarism of the previous literary work which has been raised to obtain bachelor degree of university, nor there are opinions of masterpiece which have been written or published by others, except those which the writing are referred in the manuscript and mention in literature review and bibliography. If only there is any incorrectness proved in the future in the writer statements above, she will be fully responsible. -
Fragile Bodies in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series
Cultivating Perspectives: Fragile Bodies in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series by Heather Simeney MacLeod A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Department of English and Film Studies University of Alberta © Heather Simeney MacLeod, 2014 ABSTRACT This dissertation project exposes the troubling engagement with classifications of materiality within text and bodies in Stephenie Meyer’s contemporary American vampire narrative, the Twilight Series (2005-2008). It does so by disclosing the troubling readings inherent in genre; revealing problematic representations in the gendered body of the protagonist, Bella Swan; exposing current cultural constructions of the adolescent female; demonstrating the nuclear structure of the family as inextricably connected to an iconic image of the trinity— man, woman, and child; and uncovering a chronicle of the body of the racialized “other.” That is to say, this project analyzes five persistent perspectives of the body—gendered, adolescent, transforming, reproducing, and embodying a “contact zone”—while relying on the methodologies of new feminist materialisms, posthumanism, postfeminism and vampire literary criticism. These conditions are characteristic of the “genre shift” in contemporary American vampire narrative in general, meaning that current vampire fiction tends to shift outside of the boundaries of its own classification, as in the case of Meyer’s material, which is read by a diverse readership outside of its Young Adult categorization. As such, this project closely examines the vampire exposed in Meyer’s remarkably popular text, as well as key texts published in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, such as Joss Whedon’s television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), Alan Ball’s HBO series True Blood (2009-2014), Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark (1987) and Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987). -
1 Approvement Character Analysis of Isabella Swan In
APPROVEMENT CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF ISABELLA SWAN IN STEPHENIE MEYER’S TWILIGHT A Thesis Submitted to Letters and Humanities faculty In Partial of Requirements for Strata-1 Degree Akhmad Yunus NIM. 102026024513 Approved by: Elve Oktafiyani, M. Hum. NIP.150 317 725 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT ADAB AND HUMANITIES FACULTY SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY JAKARTA 2009 1 2 ABSTRACT Akhmad Yunus, Character Analysis of Isabella Swan in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. Thesis. Jakarta: English Letters Department, Letters and Humanities Faculty. Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, May 2009. The research concerns with one of intrinsic elements, namely character. The writer analyzes the characteristics of the main character in Stephanie Meyer’s novel Twilight, Isabella Swan. The data are obtained by a comprehensive reading. The compiled data area analyzed with descriptive qualitative analysis method. The result of this research shows that the main character Isabella Swan is depicted physically and psychologically. Her physical characteristics are beautiful with brown hairs and eyes, and a heart shaped face. Psychologically she is self control, curious, honest, brave, introvert, and sometimes she lies. 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. I would like to say thanks to Allah SWT who has given the writer power to finish this term thesis. Peace be upon our great Prophet Muhammad SAW, his family, companions, and all followers in the world. The enormous thanks I dedicate to my beloved mother, Siti Ropiah, my sister Eli Sufiati, my brother Tanuri, Yusuf Attariq, Muhammad Daud, who support and give the writer spirit on facing this task.