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Crepusculo Y Su Historia / Twilight And History (2010)

by Nancy Reagin(Favorite Author)

4.34 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

607453067X (ISBN13: 9786074530674)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Selector S.A. De C.V

review 1: I picked this up because I had students writing on the book for their final essays and I wanted to be aware of the research materials available to them. There's nothing in here that a reasonably educated adult would not already be aware of, but for someone who hasn't really studied history and/or a younger reader, this could be a valuable book for providing context and interesting background on the characters. Scholarly essays, but accessibly written; a lot of speculative history, i.e. 'if this character were alive in his own time he could have/might have/ probably did this-or-that'.
review 2: I only found one essay in this collection that was truly interesting, "Like Other American Families, Only Not: The Cullens and the "Ideal" Family in American History". It... more looks at how the Cullen family has evolved over time, the tensions in Edward and Bella's relationship, and the subversive aspects of the generally-regarded-as conservative text. Most of the others seemed to me like the author was reaching to establish connections between history and the Twilight stories. For example, "Better Turned than "Cured"?" explores Alice's history as a mental patient, but looks more deeply at the history of asylums and patient treatment than it does at how that shaped Alice. And similarly for "Jasper Hale, the Oldest Living Confederate Veteran", which looks closely at the general psyche of Civil War veterans but not so much at that of Jasper Hale.Of note as somewhat interesting was "Courting Edward Cullen" by Catherine Coker which introduces the idea of a "resistant reading" where a text is read against itself. Bella and Edward have an era/culture gap due to the years between them, and they conduct their relationship inside outdated rules (by Edward's early 20th C rules), which places their love outside the current time. Bella's beloved romances are used throughout the text as commentary on her and Edward's unfolding relationship. Adding real historical elements to the story provides a resistant reading, which Coker does by placing Bella and Edward in different times, with Edward as an ordinary human, and imagining their relationship within those eras. These stories are not particularly interesting, and don't really offer much insight into the saga, but the idea of a resistant reading is intriguing.I'm moving on to Twilight and Philosophy, which I hope to be more interesting in exploring belief systems represented by the characters and their lifestyles, and I hope it explores subversive ideas within the text instead of the surface story as so much of Twilight and History does. less

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