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This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, as well as the series’ film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the context of the Twilight-Jane Eyre relationship reveals melodrama as an empowering mode of communication for girls. Although melodrama has saturated popular culture since the nineteenth century, its expression in texts for, about, and by girls has been remarkably under theorized. By defining melodrama, however, through its Victorian lineages, Katie Kapurch recognizes melodrama's aesthetic form and rhetorical function in contemporary girl culture while also demonstrating its legacy since the nineteenth century. Informed by feminist theories of literature and film, Kapurch shows how melodrama is worthy of serious consideration since the mode critiques limiting social constructions of postfeminist girlhood and, at the same time, enhances intimacy between girls—both characters and readers. .

Comparative literature --- Literature --- literatuur --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Comparative literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- History and criticism --- Brontë, Charlotte, --- Meyer, Stephenie,

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American fiction --- English literature --- Girls in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Melodrama --- Melodrama in motion pictures. --- Girls --- Excess (Philosophy) --- Emotions in literature. --- Fan fiction --- American fiction. --- Emotions in literature. --- English literature --- Excess (Philosophy) --- Fan fiction. --- Girls --- Girls in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Melodrama. --- Melodrama in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading. --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Books and reading. --- Brontë, Charlotte, --- Meyer, Stephenie, --- Jane Eyre (Brontë, Charlotte) --- Twilight saga (Meyer, Stephenie) --- 1800-2099

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The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a surprising dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four. New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles offers a collection of original, previously unpublished essays that explore 'new' aspects of the Beatles. The interdisciplinary collection situates the band in its historical moment of the 1960s, but argues for artistic innovation and cultural ingenuity that account for the Beatles' lasting popularity today. Along with theoretical approaches that bridge the study of music with perspectives from non-music disciplines, the texts under investigation make this collection 'new' in terms of Beatles' scholarship. Contributors frequently address under-examined Beatles texts or present critical perspectives on familiar works to produce new insight about the Beatles and their multi-generational audiences. Kenneth Womack, Ph.D. is Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles(2007), the Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), and The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four (2014). Womack is also the author of three award-winning novels, including John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel (2010), The Restaurant at the End of the World (2012), and Playing the Angel (2013). He serves as Editor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, and as Co-Editor of the English Association's Year's Work in English Studies. Katie Kapurch, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University. She has published es.

Sociology of culture --- Didactics of the arts --- Music --- History of civilization --- cultuur --- muziek --- leren --- Amerikaanse cultuur --- lesgeven --- United States of America