Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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I’ve been told that I should back down on my hatred of Twilight because it’s getting kids to read.
This rather puts the lie to that. It’s getting kids to read … trash.
If they compare actual books to trash and prefer trash, then I stand by my contempt.
And my other comments from FB:
If by “Old English” she means that at no point does any character say, “Like, totally, you know?” or “OMG!” then she has a point.
Is there any less-appropriate use of the word “saga” than in reference to Twilight?
I’m with Ken, the charge that Dracula is written in Anglo-Saxon is absurd.
I absolutely loved Dracula. Old Engish, eh? It was written around 1900! My friend told me yesterday he was rereading the Lord of The Rings trilogy starting with the Hobbit. We both read them in 6th and 7th grade, then we read the I, Robot series..kids today….