http://thatsbooks.blogspot.com/2011/12/interdisciplinary-approaches-to.html

Wha??? The multi-faceted "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight"???

I want blooood!! No. Actually, it's lunch time. I crave a cheese sandwich! ;o))

Please?

So my antennae were already pointed in a certain direction...

>"Please make a voluntary contribution to 'That's Books'"

Am I allowed to suggest that this is what the motive is, and there really isn't any group of real academics discussing this bit of literary fluff?

Googling Nordic Academic Press right now... Okay, there's a legitimate book that's been written about Twilight...

http://www.ipgbook.com/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-twilight-products-9789185509638.php?page_id=32&pid=NRD

Being sold by some small book publisher, and I don't see any "academic" endorsements...

http://www.ipgbook.com/history-pages-65.php

Okay, I'll look a little further; I see one title where I can safely claim a modest bit of historical expertise...

>http://www.ipgbook.com/watergate-exposed-products-9781936296118.php?page_id=30

>Watergate Exposed

>How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up As Told to Douglas Caddy, Original Attorney for the Watergate Seven

>An in-depth look at how the Watergate burglars were set-up, and how history has been rewritten. Disclosing new factual material about the Watergate scandal, this provocative exposé of the famed break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972, reveals that the burglars were set up, and explains how our historical consciousness has been altered to obscure the truth.

Okay, where do I send the bill for the bullchip filters?

I'm only 5 hours late to the discussion...haha.

Edit: However, it does have a listing on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Interdisciplinary-Approaches-Twilight-Contemporary-Experience/dp/9185509639



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Nothing more, nothing less.

Like a taxi, you can never be quite sure what it will carry, some saints, some sinners.

And it really is interesting when someone quotes something that is not what they read, but what they seem to think they might have read.



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The author is from Sweden, teaches sexology and not even at the doctorate level. My thoughts are that this will never turn into an actual class, though the book might sell well.

You've got some 'splainin to do.

Dave the Atheist Wrote:
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> You've got some 'splainin to do.

Presumably that is because the whole concept of Mormon vampires is seriously fucked. ;o))

I'm talking about the author of the textbook, not of Twilight.

There is a difference between studying a book for its intrinsic literary value and studying a book as a social phenomenon. This is clearly a reference to the latter.

The Twilight series really isn't well written. I'm baffled why ANYONE wants to read them.

I agree with Pista here. I don't think Meyer's books get studied and written about because of their literary quality (someone might discuss their qualities, but that's different). I think people are looking at the cultural phenomenon, maybe comparing the books to earlier popular waves, myths, icons, fairy tales, women's fantasies, their constructions of men, etc.

It's the same reason some academics might take a look at the Harry Potter books--kind of a "What's up with that?" and "What do we know about the history of popular culture, demographics, technology, history, and current events, political, and social changes that teach us anything or that make sense of these works having any hold on so many people's interest and care and pocketbooks?"

Anything that has a lot of people, especially young people, reading and talking about certain characters, a fictional world, relationships, evaluating the merits of X or Y happening there, is going to get the attention of some educators, sociologists, cultural critics, not to mention market researchers.

One of the most humorous readings is the young gentleman Alex from the UK. He's a pretty smart kid, who takes on the task of reading Stephanie's 1st book one chapter at a time and blogging about it. It's hilarious. A bit of language but if you want to see how someone who can identify good literature reads her book I suggest giving it a try.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alex+reads+twilight&oq=alex+reads&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4642l6124l0l7842l10l10l0l2l2l0l207l1415l0.6.2l8l0

I think Alex has a potential for a career in TV! What was with the fluffy balls on her eyes? Who was she, anyway? ;oD

LOL. I don't know he does a random bit at the beginning/end of his vids at times. The ch1 starts out slow, but by the time I got to ch. 4 and 5 vids just watching his reactions to her writing had me rolling. The good thing is they are short...3 min or so per chapter. The ones at the end of the book are classic. Took the kid a whole year. LOL.

(for the non-theists here, he also does a reading of chapter one of genesis in the bible which is pretty good)