One of the most interesting and surprising things to hit our Google alerts lately is an article from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of all places! They examine how the Twilight phenomenon has sparked debate over reinventing traditional myths about vampires.
The concept of the vampire has been around for centuries, and the Twilight series seems to incorporate very little of it. Fine, so Edward Cullen drinks blood, is sort of ancient, and has a mild allergy to sunlight, but then again, so does Ozzy Osbourne. Few would mistake Ozzy for a vampire, and much fewer would mistake him for the lead in a romance novel.
Read the full article over at The Tech website.
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