"Is That What You Dream About? Being a Monster?": Bella Swan and the Construction of the Monstrous-Feminine in The Twilight Saga
ABSTRACT This dissertation argues that Bella Swan is a representation of Barbara Creed's monstrous-feminine which serves to reinforce ideologies that insist women are abject, inherently dangerous to men, and threatening to a patriarchal status quo. Through close-textual analysis of The Twilight...
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Scholar Commons
2014
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| Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5217 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6413&context=etd |