In the twilight of patriarchal culture : the struggle for female identity in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga /

Hauptbeschreibung The book investigates Meyer's popular Twilight saga from a feminist point of view, focusing on the development of Bella's character and her quest for identity in a rigidly patriarchal world. Bella's life is entirely determined by the two central male characters who f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ernst, Astrid
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hamburg : Anchor Academic Pub., 2013.
Temas:
Meyer, Stephenie, > 1973- > Twilight.
Twilight (Meyer, Stephenie)
Women > Identity.
Women > Psychology.
Women > Social conditions.
Femmes > Identité.
Femmes > Psychologie.
Femmes > Conditions sociales.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Women > Identity
Women > Psychology
Women > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In the Twilight of Patriarchal Culture; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Tracing Bella's Subjectivity: Ideal Love as the only Way Out; 3. Edward and Jacob: magnets with reversed polarities or two poles of Bella's existence?; 4. The Cullen Vampires: the ideal family and its enemies; 4.1. Carlisle and Edward Cullen; 4.2. Esme Cullen; 4.3. Rosalie Cullen; 4.4. Alice Cullen; 4.5. The Cullens' Enemies: The Volturi and Victoria; 5. Quileute Legends: re-affirming patriarchal myths; 6. The Power of Abstinence?; 7. The Dawn of Bella's Immortality.
  • 7.1. Bella's transformations: marriage, pregnancy, motherhood7.2. Bella's new life: motherhood and other talents; 7.3. Renesmee: link between binaries, threat to the patriarchal order; 8. Twilight as Modern Fairy Tale: patriarchal myths reflected in the saga; 8.1. Little Red Riding Hood; 8.2. The Little Mermaid; 8.3. The Genesis; 9. Intertextuality: The Twilight Saga and Wuthering Heights; 10. Conclusion; 11. Bibliography.

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