Twilight Saga Research Articles

EXPORT SAGA AT THE SEA

The purpose of this article is to highlight some of the stages of country's export saga. The country is an island, Iceland, a remote island in the north. The export saga spans more than a thousand years, from Viking settlement to the present day. The introduction provides an overview, followed by a story about the generation born a few years before World War II and what life was like before and after the start of significant fish exports. Secondly, it discusses the evolution of exports from Iceland in terms of the goods that dominate exports. Thirdly, it analyses whether the nature of exports has changed in response to the significant export opportunities that have opened up to the US and, subsequently, to Europe with the formation of the EU, EFTA and NAFTA. For a long time, the export of goods in the form of fish has been important for Iceland. In this context, two export stories from Iceland can be told. The export of services in the form of tourism has become more important than the export of goods in recent years. This development is in line with the theory that the more a country develops, the more it shifts its exports from goods to services - which is visible in Iceland's exports, as tourism is classified as a service export in the national accounts, the international standard. The country's export story can be seen as a twilight saga in the stormy seas of international development. The methodology used is based on the popular business SWOT analysis, which allows to assess the benefits of exporting over time. This method helps to assess the following factors: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. The results of a SWOT analysis depend on the factor being assessed: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities or Threats. The matrix approach to SWOT analysis has been structured to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The method has been highly regarded by business researchers. There are several practical implications, and they relate to all dimensions of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Last but not least, the study includes several factors related to value/originality in the industry, which implies issues that exporters should bear in mind and take into account if they start any international activity in the form of exporting fish cargo to other countries.

Romeo and Juliet’s Gothic Space in YA Undead Fiction

Many previous works have demonstrated that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet offers gothic authors, directors, and other artists a hospitable topos. I extend this critical corpus to consider the way in which young adult (YA) undead novels—written by American women writers within a few years of each other in the early twenty-first century—understand the Capulet crypt as a gothic space. I use the term “undead” throughout since although the focus of this fiction is on vampires, some texts also include zombies and other revenants. The chosen novels belong to a moment of extreme popularity for Romeo and Juliet vampire fiction, the best-known example being Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga. The texts of Meyer, Claudia Gabel, Lori Handeland, and Stacey Jay include diverse elements from Romeo and Juliet, from fleeting quotations to sustained reworkings of characters and plot. I conclude that a shift away from the confining and distressing gothic space in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as the Capulet crypt to a more graphic containment in a variety of sarcophagi, or within Juliet’s body itself, is discernible in most of these retellings. This shift is explained with reference to the growth in populairt not just of female, but feminist, gothic and the turn to the body in literary criticism from the 1990s onwards. In this way, Romeo and Juliet can be understood as providing a hospitable topos for the twenty-first century feminisms of these authors and their young, predominantly female, readers.

Social and Spatial Representations of the Nerd in Donnie Darko

The nerds of 20th and 21st century global pop and visual culture have taken various forms over the decades. In a plethora of media - from video games to comic books to film - individuals associated with this subject position have typically been shown to be on the periphery of socio-spatially determined spaces of value. Through contemporary North American high school dramas, comedies, romances, and thrillers ranging from The Faculty (1998) to She’s All That (1999) to The Twilight Saga (2008-2012), these socio-spatial spaces of value are typically associated with social capital and popularity. Richard Kelly’s protagonist in his directorial debut Donnie Darko (2001) raises interesting questions concerning the relationship between the nerd, the outsider and the loner, and their relation to social and personal space. In socio-spatial terms, Donnie calls into question the value and power of socio-spatially determined zones of value if one sees such spaces and structures as valueless in principium. This paper conducts a close reading of Donnie Darko, beginning with the assumption that Donnie is a nerd and, parsing the character through the socio-spatial relations of a variety of adolescent subject positions, what Donnie Darko ultimately uncovers about identity, space, and value.

BELLA SWAN’S BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AS ARESULT OF THE ABSENCE OF MATERNAL CARE IN STEPHENIE MEYER’S TWILIGHT SAGA

Abstract
 Mental disorders are common in modern times. It can be seen in the novel Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. It describes that the main character has a psychological problem. As a result of her failed expectations about her mother's figure, she experienced early trauma and disappointment, which culminated in mental changes that led to Borderline Personality Disorder. Two problems are proposed in this research; how does the absence of maternal care trigger mental disorders and the impact of Borderline Personality Disorder suffered by BellaSwan. This research uses the theory of Object Relations by Otto F. Kernberg. Two of Kernberg’s concepts are considered appropriate to be utilized: mother-daughter relationships and the concept of Borderline Personality Disorder. Those concepts help this research to describehow the absence of maternal care trigger mental disorder and the kind of Borderline Personality Disorder suffered by Bella Swan. The result of this research shows two main points. First, the absence of maternal care is the cause of the failure of character-forming and it led to Borderline Personality Disorder. Second, the impact is shown through her being unconfident and split up from the social.

“Still not as Gay as Twilight”: Postmodern Affect, Nostalgia & Queer Twilight Renaissance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stephenie Meyer’s (2005) Twilight is a paranormal, young adult series chronicling the love story between 17-year-old high schooler, Bella Swan, and 104-year-old vampire, Edward Cullen. Despite Twilight’s blatant heterosexual canon, the franchise was met with widespread homophobic backlash and was seen as girly, uncool and, hence, ‘gay’. Over ten years have passed since the release of Twilight, yet thousands of former and new fans are unashamedly reclaiming the Twilight saga online. This revival began trending on various social media websites in 2018 and has continued to this day with a particular surge in popularity during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Widely known as “The Twilight Renaissance”, this unapologetic comeback is particularly prominent in online queer communities. In essence, the heart of this article traces queer affective representations by situating the Twilight Renaissance in the current pandemic state. Intertwining Raymond Williams’ (1977) structure of feelings and Frederic Jameson’s (1991) cognitive mapping, this article argues that this collective queer affect is inseparable from the neoliberal and advanced capitalist pandemic context in which it inhabits. Second, the Twilight Renaissance shall be conceptualized as an exemplar of Butt and Millner-Larsen’s (2018) queer commons, wherein queer Twihards construct a space or, in this case, fandom, in attempts to revive and repair a historically homophobic narrative. Finally, as the Twilight Renaissance is particularly informed by the current pandemic context, this article explores the ways in which this queer comeback is uniquely representative of a queer coping mechanism that directly responds to the stress and uncertainties that accompany the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Effects of Media Literacy-Based Activities on Writing Skills in the EFL Classroom

This study explores the effectiveness of media literacy-based activities on writing proficiency and affective domains in the EFL setting. A quasi-experiment was conducted during the 2021 academic year with 148 college EFL students selected as participants from three classes from a private university in Seoul, South Korea. Participants were divided into three groups based on proficiency levels: upper proficiency, intermediate proficiency, and lower proficiency. The assigned activities included four steps: (1) watching video clips made by a teacher, (2) group discussion, (3) individual presentation, and (4) individual writing. For these activities, participants used multimedia like YouTube, Fanfiction.net, Reddit discussion boards, and blogs to understand the topic, evaluate the content, and express their thoughts. Popular franchises, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the Potterverse, and the Twilight saga provided material for the activities. The study’s results reveal that students significantly increased their writing skills, regardless of proficiency level. Moreover, the higher the linguistic ability, the more the writing ability improved. In a survey, students also showed significant changes in all affective domains (anxiety, interest, confidence, and engagement), except for the lower proficiency group’s confidence domain. The study presents a detailed summary of the activities and derives meaningful implications.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) and Hybrid Approaches to Intensified Continuity in Film (video essay)

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) and Hybrid Approaches to Intensified Continuity in FilmMarina Ivaniceva , University of Reading

The Twilight Effect, post-film tourism and diversification: the future of Forks, WA

PurposeThe visitor economy of Forks now clearly relies upon a niche form of tourism – as fans of The Twilight Saga are drawn to the setting and filming location of the films. The purpose of this study is to consider the process of diversification and subsequently present recommendations that could inform a future diversification strategy for Forks, in preparation for a post-film tourism scenario.Design/methodology/approachThe research methods employed in this study have two interlinked but distinct elements. Firstly, the Twilight Effect in Forks (WA, USA) is considered as an illustrative case study to shed light on the issues facing a destination that has seen a tourism boom as a direct result of popular culture – The Twilight Saga Franchise. Secondly, a scenario thinking and planning approach is applied when considering the “long-view” future of tourism in Forks.FindingsThis article presents a post-film tourism future scenario for Forks; it suggests tourism diversification and a shift towards cultural heritage and wellness. Forks is well placed to afford such tourism experiences, as it offers unique cultural and natural characteristics; furthermore, these could be utilised to create and maintain a distinctive destination image. In doing so a more socially and environmentally sustainable industry can be established, one which supports the local community, including the Quileute tribe.Originality/valueThe article offers original discussions within the film-tourism literature with novel approaches to understanding the management and pre-planning opportunities for destinations that have become popular film tourism locations, with the application of a “Tourism Diversification Model”. The model is adapted from Ansoff Matrix and can be applied as a framework in future studies exploring destination diversification. The investigation of Forks as a post-film tourism case study alone is unique, and the discussions and findings presented are original.

Crossing the Border Between Elitist and Popular Literature: A Comparative Analysis of Goethe’s Bride of Corinth and Meyer’s Twilight Saga

Crossing the Border Between Elitist and Popular Literature: A Comparative Analysis of Goethe’s Bride of Corinth and Meyer’s Twilight Saga

Sympathetic Vampires and Zombies with Brains: The Modern Monster as a Master of Self‐Control

Sympathetic Vampires and Zombies with Brains: The Modern Monster as a Master of Self‐Control

Preposition Of Place Analysis As Linguistics Research In Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

This study will discuss the preposition of place in the novel Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 which is known to be able to apply the proper use of the preposition of place in English. A preposition of place is a preposition that refers to a place in a sentence. The purpose of the preposition of place is to show the way the object of the preposition is against the subject or object of the sentence. The reason for choosing Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as the data source is because in this novel many sentences use prepositions to describe places. The results of the prepositions of place that appear from the identification of data in the novel Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 include at, in, on. The most widely used preposition of place in this novel is "in". The importance of novels for EFL Learners is to increase reading skills by reading the novel itself. This research method is descriptive qualitative which will be used to analyze how many prepositions of place words are displayed

ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONFLICTS MAIN CHARACTER’S IN THE NOVEL "TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON" BY STEPHENIE MEYER

AbstractThe purpose of this research is to find out internal and external conflicts of the main character’s in the novel "Twilight Saga New Moon" by Stephenie Meyer that can be useful in building students and teachers’ good character’s specifically for English students of FKIP Untan. The method of this research is Descriptive Research. The novel consist 24 chapters and 563 pages. The methods that have been used and it was conducted in five stages, namely: (1) Characterization : who is the main character’s in the novel “Twilight Saga: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, (2) Incident and interactions: what happens in the story with whom she interacts conflicts novel (3) The place: where the story takes place,(4) Time: when the story happened on the main character, (5) Theme: what are the themes in the story. The results showed that the main character has a unique character who is attracted to Edward. She knew the risks were enormous, very dangerous, but she was desperate for what she wanted. The conclusion is to give the reader an overview through Bella's experience of social life, how to prioritize attention to others, affection, love, and even friendship.Keywords: Twilight Saga New Moon, Main Character’s, Love and Friendship.

Victorian Childhood and Children: A Conversation with Claudia Nelson

This interview focuses on the question of what adoption studies can bring to childhood studies. Nelson points out that adoption studies, which concern not only adopted children and relinquishing mothers but also adult adoptees and birth mothers late in life, can help to inform investigations of temporality, and perhaps particularly queer temporality. Invoking novels from Frankenstein to Bleak House to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga, this conversation notes that both adoption scholars and scholars of family and age studies must recognize that an adult is not only an adult but also a former child, that adulthood itself is not unitary but a matter of multiple stages and shifting relationships, and that the literature of adoption often overturns “conventional” paradigms of family in multiple ways.

Onomastique et parodie dans la saga bédéïque "Crepúsculon"

Le mythe du vampire a inspiré de nombreuses créations littéraires et audio-visuelles qui ont, pour certaines, cherché à atteindre un public adolescent. C’est le cas de la saga cinématographique Twilight (adaptation des romans de Stephenie Meyer) que les quatre BD espagnoles du cycle Crepúsculon s’emploient à parodier. Nous aborderons Crepúsculon en adoptant une approche exclusivement linguistique, et, en particulier, dans le cadre de cet article, onomastique, par le biais des tropes rhétoriques.

IDIOMATIC TRANSLATION METHOD OF ENGLISH INDONESIAN TRANSLATION

The purpose of the research was to analyze the idiomatic translation found in “The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn” By Stephanie Meyer and “Awal Yang Baru” Translated By Monica Dwi Chresnayani. The result of the research is the idiomatic translations method which is found in the novel and analyzed by using the theory of translation from Newmark. Based on the data analysis, the writer found some proofs that the data which were translated used idiomatic translation method. In analyzing translation process, the writer compared with other translation methods. The purpose was that the writer showed the translation method used by the translator was idiomatic translation method. In translation, the translator paid attention to the meaning of source language so that the message in target language can be received by the readers.

Sustainable Management of Popular Culture Tourism Destinations: A Critical Evaluation of the Twilight Saga Servicescapes

Popular culture tourism destinations are made up of constructed realities transforming local communities into fictional servicescapes. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how the unpacking of a key concept (servicescape), applied to destination management, can support the transition to sustainable destination development in the face of popular culture tourism. The aim is to unpack the servicescape concept by exploring how it is constructed focusing on Twilight Saga representations and production processes at four destinations. The data consists of photographs and video clips of the servicescapes and interviews with key stakeholders. The findings support previous servicescape research dimensions and elements but also identify critical areas of power, control, and conflict when introducing a process approach to the servicescape concept. The study provides insights into the complex exchanges that take place in the development of servicescapes at popular culture tourism destinations. The study thereby contributes to an elaborated and holistic servicescape model, stressing the importance of strategic design and local stakeholders’ early involvement in the preproduction of popular culture tourism phenomena.

Is the Twilight Saga a Modern-Time Fairy Tale? A Study of Stephenie Meyer’s Source Material from Folklore and Canonical Narratives

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.

‘Daddy, I'm falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance

This paper examines a key trope within much contemporary paranormal romance: the absence, or ineffectiveness, of the father. The first part of the essay develops an analysis of this aspect of the genre (in the Twilight Saga especially) through the work of René Girard, Luce Irigaray, and Juliet MacCannell. Of particular importance here is the extent to which Twilight and similar narratives stage female self-sacrifice as a pre-condition for the redemption of the hero and the restoration of patriarchal bonds initially compromised by some crisis in the effective functioning of paternal authority. The second section extends this analysis to consider ways in which paranormal romances featuring werewolves and vampires shift away from this conservative and reductivist romance paradigm so as to affirm and contest heteronormative, paternalistic models of masculinity and sexual desire.

Full Moon Masculinities: Masculine Werewolves, Emotional Repression, and Violence in Young Adult Paranormal Romance Fiction

Gothic monsters have recently experienced a period of focused scholarly analysis, although few studies have engaged with the werewolf in terms of its overt alignment with masculinity. Yet the werewolves of young adult fantasy fiction both support and subvert dominant masculine discourses through their complex negotiation with emotional repression and violence. These performative masculine practices are the focus of this article, which analyses how hegemonic masculine ideals are reinforced or rejected in a corpus of young adult fantasy texts, including Cassandra Clare's young adult series The Mortal Instruments (2007–2014) and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga (2005–2010). Both texts feature masculine characters whose lycanthropic experiences implicitly comment upon gender norms, which may shape young adult audiences' understanding of their own and others' gender identities.

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