The Twilight of Vampires: Byronic Heroes and the Evolution of Vampire Fiction in The Vampire Diaries and Twilight
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 p...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| Repositorio: | e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/29991 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/29991 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 5505.10 Filología vampires vampire literature Byronic hero literary impact teenagers vampiros literatura de vampiros héroe byroniano impacto literario adolescentes |
| Sumario: | 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 Twilightseries and the earlier The Vampire Diariesby L. J. Smith update and modernize the Byronic hero on which vampires are largely modeled. It also explores the possible effects of this new characterization on readers’ minds and the alarm it has created. |
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