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    A narratological analysis of the vampire character in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga
    (2020) Rosenberg, Shiri; Stachura, Paweł. Promotor
    Stephenie Meyer is the author of bestselling young-adult novels, most importantly Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), and Breaking Dawn (2008), which form the Twilight series. The dissertation compares the narrative structure and imagery in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books and in fairy tales. Because of significant and numerous similarities, Meyer’s novels can be identified as modern-time fairy tales. The novels include a number of well-known stock images, plots, and characters, which are identified and discussed in the present discussion. One of the key concepts in the present inquiry, as defined in the first chapter, is the literary fairy tale and its relation to the folk tale. In the Twilight novels, Stephenie Meyer combines fairy tale material with the vampire character and imagery related to the vampire theme, discussed in the second chapter. This combination is an important research area in the present study, and it leads to interesting results. The dissertation will present a brief historical outline of the vampire character in literature and present the transformations of themes, functions, and readership of vampire fiction, from pre-modern times to the late 20th century.