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Title Twilight and philosophy : vampires, vegetarians, and the pursuit of immortality / edited by Rebecca Housel and J. Jeremy Wisnewski
Published Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)
Series The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.
Contents You look good enough to eat: love, madness, and the food analogy / George A. Dunn -- Dying to eat: the vegetarian ethics of Twilight / Jean Kazez -- Can a vampire be a person? / Nicholas Michaud -- Carlisle: more compassionate than a speeding bullet? / Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen -- Vampire-Dämmerung: what can Twilight tell us about God? / Peter S. Fosl and Eli Fosl -- To bite or not to bite: Twilight, immortality, and the meaning of life / Brendan Shea -- Mind reading and morality: the moral hazards of being Edward / Eric Silverman -- Love and authority among wolves / Sara Worley -- Bella Swan and Sarah Palin: all the old myths are not true / Naomi Zack -- Vampire love: the second sex negotiates the twenty-first century / Bonnie Mann -- Edward Cullen and Bella Swan: Byronic and feminist heroes ... or not / Abigail E. Myers -- Undead patriarchy and the possibility of love / Leah McClimans and J. Jeremy Wisnewski -- The "real" danger: fact vs. fiction for the girl audience / Rebecca Housel -- Twilight of an idol: our fatal attraction to vampires / Jennifer L. McMahon -- Bella's vampires semiotics / Dennis Knepp -- Space, time, and vampire ontology / Philip Puszczalowski -- For the strength of Bella? Meyer, vampires, and Mormonism / Marc E. Shaw -- The Tao of Jacob / Rebecca Housel
Summary With everything from Taoism to mind reading to the place of God in a world of vampires, this book offers some very tasty philosophy for both the living and the undead to sink their teeth into
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Meyer, Stephenie, 1973- Twilight saga.
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973- -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Meyer, Stephenie. cct
Meyer, Stephenie -- Philosophy. cct
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973- fast
Meyer, Stephenie 1973- gnd
Meyer, Stephenie 1973- Breaking dawn gnd
Meyer, Stephenie 1973- Eclipse gnd
Meyer, Stephenie 1973- New moon gnd
Meyer, Stephenie 1973- Twilight gnd
Meyer, Stephenie. swd
Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. swd
Meyer, Stephenie. New moon. swd
Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse. swd
Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking dawn. swd
Twilight saga (Meyer, Stephenie) fast
Subject Vampires in literature.
Immortality in literature.
Immortality (Philosophy)
Philosophy in literature.
Werewolves in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Vampires in literature.
Immortality in literature.
Immortality (Philosophy)
Philosophy in literature.
Immortality in literature
Immortality (Philosophy)
Philosophy
Philosophy in literature
Vampires in literature
Werewolves in literature
Philosophie
Populaire cultuur.
Filosofische aspecten.
Vampyrer i litteraturen.
Odödlighet i litteraturen.
Vampyrer i litteraturen.
Odödlighet i litteraturen.
Filosofi i litteraturen.
Religion i litteraturen.
Form Electronic book
Author Housel, Rebecca
Wisnewski, Jeremy
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