The Trivial and the Canonical

Given the expectations of distance between a trivial narrative and a canonical narrative, this book, through a comparison between Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, discusses the connections that may exist between the two categories when viewed from the perspective of influence. In addition to observing the borderline position between the trivial and the canonical in some aspects of the texts studied, the book also draws attention to the fact that reading texts considered trivial, constructed under the influence of canonical authors, can help guide young readers to the original text, a fact that can enable an appropriate pedagogical approach for those who are beginning their literary education, becoming a facilitating element in the study of literature.