On The Intertextuality Between Twilight Saga And Wuthering Heights

Since the publication of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, it has successively made the publication miracle and enjoyed attention from both the critics and readers, further triggering the "Twilight Fever" throughout the world. The scholars from both home and abroad launch researches on Twilight Saga from various perspectives, including feminism, reader-response, thematic analysis, archetypal criticism. Among these scholars, Iris Thelma Jonsdottir uses intertextuality to explore the theme of "forbidden love" reflected in Twilight Saga and Wuthering Heights. However, intertextuality in these two works is not limited to theme only; it’s indeed deeper and more complicated. Through intensive reading of the texts, this thesis discovers intertextuality between Twilight Saga and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights in many aspects.This thesis consists of five parts. The first part is a brief introduction to Stephenie Meyer and her works, an overview of Twilight Saga and previous studies both from home and abroad. Besides, it summarizes various theories on intertextuality to set its theoretical basis and frame. The first chapter analyzes the similarities of two authors from both personal and social point of view, covering their family background, female identity and historical influence on their writing. Basing on explicit intertxtuality in terms of writing techniques, the second chapter makes a research on the specific intertextual form, narrative techniques and the choice of images in those two works to reflect the intertextuality. That is to explore intertextuality in detail. In the third chapter, this thesis discusses the traditional themes, such as love, life and death, and nature, in those two works in the light of the implicit intertextuality, to grab the essence of intertextual connection from the macro depth. Finally there comes the conclusion that those two works interweave with each other, transcending different times and space.This thesis concludes that the writer of Twilight Saga Stephenie Meyer is indeed influenced by Emily Bronte. Both writers have the resonance in many aspects with the former one making reference to the latter one’s work, enabling Twilight Saga and Wuthering Heights to reflect intertexuality in various perspectives and levels.