| dc.description.abstract | Twilight is a popular novel written by Stephenie Meyer. Thiss thesis is conducted
to show the reason of the novel becomes popular and best-seller through the
formula constructed the text. Structuralists cricized if the structures underlying
narrative structures of literary texts are not original. Twilight which is a literary
text presumed a piece of unorigianl work becomes the most wold best-seller
novel. Therefore, this thesis uses Cawelti’s theorry about formulaic literature to
explain the Twilight’s popularity phenomena.
In this research, qualitative method is employed to analyze the formula
contructed Twilight through selected events within the novel. Formulaic
literatures propose if every popular work is not only embodied by conventional
structures (pattern) but also cultural values the readers enjoyed. In oreder to have
brif explanation around the formula, three aspects which have significant role on
the construction of Twilight are analyzed. They are gothic elements, romance
narrative and fantasy aspects. In terms of cultural values, this research provides
postmodern culture as the cultural background of the formula.
As a result, Twilight is a novel that is contructed by blending gothic,
romance and fantasy. Furthermore, this research also find that through the
development and the focus of the story, Twilight is determined to be romance
novel in where gothic and fantasy aspects are used to dramatize the romance
story. Moreover, the popularity of Twilight is due to the postmodern women are
illuminated by the concept of hyper-reality about body image. Through the
process of identification, women who is surpressed by the alternative reality can
escape from the real world to the magical world of Twilight in where all the
burdens may vanish. | en_US |
