INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL BODY OF HERO AND HEROINE IN STEPHANIE MEYER’S TWILIGHT: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY ON PROTAGONIST FORMULA OF ROMANCE  

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Kustantinah, Indri

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 1st Literary Studies Conference: Configuring and Reconfiguring English Literature in Southeast Asia (SEA), Yogyakarta, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 17-18 Oktober 2013
Topik: body; characters; anthropology; Twilight
Fulltext: 8 Individual Social Rev.pdf (464.5KB)

Isi artikel

he terminology of high literature and popular literature has alienated readers around the world as the works of literature should be enjoyed without prejudice, in this case English literature. Dulce et Utile should be be broadly interpreted. Popular literature (poplit) can be equally appreciated to high literature (highlit) since poplit is no better or worse than the highlit nor a different kind of writing. That is why the writer takes poplit as the object of her study. The study is going to discuss about Twilight, a romance. Romance formula focuses on the love relationships between man (hero) and woman (heroine) and how they manage their relationships into happy ending. This paper will concern on describing the formula of Twilight’s hero and heroine and how their body are constructed individually, socially, and politically by using anthropological theory which is rooted in the study of humankind, including human body. This study will be undergone by analyzing the hero, Edward Cullen and the heroine, Bella Swan. The construction of bodies are based on the hero and heroine formula of romance, ranging from physical characteristics of body; the social construction brought by body; and the political body of the union of hero and heroine’s bodies in legal context.

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