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Young Adult Pop Fiction: Empathy and the Twilight Series [PDF]
European Journal of American Studies, 2015 This analysis of the Twilight series focuses on the role of empathy as a communicative, cross-cultural tool by which the author transmits a message that features human commitment as the key to happiness.
Alicia Otano Unzue
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POSTMODERN RED RIDING HOOD: BELLA SWAN IN TWILIGHT SERIES [PDF]
Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, 2019 Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series presents its protagonist Bella Swan in a fairy tale-like world where she is surrounded with vampires and werewolves. In this world, Bella, as a figure of the girl in the woods, displays similar characteristics with those of the fairy tale type Little Red Riding Hood in Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” (Le ...
Öteyaka, Işıl, Ayan, Meryem
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Community differences and potential function along the particle size spectrum of microbes in the twilight zone [PDF]
MicrobiomeBackground The twilight zone, which extends from the base of the euphotic zone to a depth of 1000 m, is the major area of particulate organic carbon (POC) remineralization in the ocean. However, little is known about the microbial community and metabolic
Yue Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Hongmei Jing
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Genre, reception, and adaptation in the "Twilight" Series, edited by Anne Morey
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2013 Anne Morey, ed. Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the "Twilight" Series. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. $99.95 (236p) ISBN 978-1-4094-3661-4.
Amanda Retartha
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The romanticization of abstinence: Fan response to sexual restraint in the Twilight series
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 Meyer's Twilight series has been criticized for its regressive gender representations. To understand its continuing appeal, we problematize the messages of abstinence and romance in the series, and contextualize fans' response with a discussion of ...
Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, and Melissa A. Click
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Vampires and Werewolves: Rewriting Religious and Racial Stereotyping in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series [PDF]
International Research in Children's Literature, 2012 Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series (2005–8) demonstrates a strong connection with the theology, cultural practices and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), of which Meyer is an active member. One of the strongest ways in which this connection is demonstrated is through characterisation: specifically, by featuring vampires ...
Ledvinka, Georgina
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Virtue as Adventure and Excess: Intertextuality, Masculinity, and Desire in the Twilight Series
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2013 The vampire is still primarily a literary figure. The vampires we have seen on TV and cinema in recent years are all based on literary models. The vampire is at the same time a popular cultural icon and a figure that, especially women writers, use to ...
Claudia Lindén
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Prasasti: Journal of Linguistics, 2017 The aims of the study are to analyze the translations of compliment in subtitle film Twilight Series between source text (English) and target text (Indonesian).
Wahyudi Wahyudi +2 more
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Monster as a Superhero: an Essay on Vampire Vogue in Contemporary Film Culture [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari de Istoria Artei : Teatru, Muzică, Cinematografie, 2012 The worldwide popular series Twilight is the mixed genre phenomenon in literature, media and cinema. After monstrous cinema interpretations of vampires, Edward Cullen becomes a vampire that women fall in love with.
Lejla Panjeta
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Entering "the Dimension of Imagination": The Twilight Zone's Tales of Madness
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2022 Delusions. Illusions. Over-tension, over-anxiety, and under-confidence. The original Twilight Zone series employed madness as a metaphor to critique the late-1950s and early-1960s American cultural ideals of uncompromising rationality, social conformity,
Adam Cetorelli
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