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CHAPTER 3. RESEARCH DESIGN
3.1 The Type of Research
The writer uses qualitative research in conducting this research. Qualitative research focuses on analyzing information in description text, from collecting
detailed data in the form of words or images. Different with quantitative research
which focuses analysis with numbers, this research is presented in descriptive way Creswell, 2008:58. Therefore, the qualitative data is compatible to use in this
research because all data and information are in the form of sentences or words.
3.2 Data Collection
The technique of data collection is documentary. All the data which are taken from those materials are in the form of sentences or words in several books, articles,
journal, or any information from internet data which are relevant with the problems do discuss about werewolves. The primary data of this research are taken from the
novels, The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer about the characteristics of werewolves.
Furthermore, the secondary data are taken from several books and other references about werewolves. The book is written by
Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865. Book of Werewolves
describes werewolves in many terms and cultures at many countries. It also descibes about European werewolves and Native American
werewolves which relates to this research. The other references, which are taken from internet such as essays, articles, magazine or any other text, are used to
strengthen the researcher arguments about werewolves within Whitley Strieber’s The Wolfen and Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon. The next are the theoretical books. They
are Comparative Literature, A critical Introduction 1993 written by Susan Bassnett and Theory of Comparative Literature 2005 by M. M. Enani. These books relate to
comparative study in literary works. On the other hand, the books also tell about history of comparative literature in French School.
3.3 Data Analysis
After reading and collecting the primary data from Whitley Strieber’s The Wolfen and Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon, I have found that those novels have the
similarities and the differences. Those novels only have one similarity. Both of novels have showed that werewolves’ descriptions are influenced by the myth. Thus,
in conducting the discussion, I need to analyze the descriptions of werewolves within two novels.
In analyzing werewolves, I investigate the source of influence within those novels. There are two myths which influenced The Wolfen and New Moon. They are
European and Native American mythology of werewolves. After finding the source of influence of werewolves’ descriptions, I investigate the echoing process of myths
which are spread out within the novels. Then, I analyze the process of ideological echo of European mythology of
werewolves in novel The Wolfen. In this case, I need to investigate the European mythology of werewolves’ characteristics and the echoing characteristics in The
Wolfen. The characteristics are about the form of werewolves and its intelligences. Next, for Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon, I am also doing the same process as
it is done in The Wolfen. Here, I explore the mixing procces of ideological echoe from Native American and European mythologies of werewolf. In this case, I take
two kinds of description of werewolves brought by European and Native American myths. Furthermore, I take werewolves’ characteristics in the novel New Moon as the
proofs of the process of ideological echo of the acculturation of two kinds of werewolves.
Finally, I have discovered European mythology and Native American mythology of werewolves at both of novels. In this part, I put Whitley Strieber’s The
Wolfen as the result of the echoing process of European mythology of werewolves; while, werewolves in Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon is the result of the echoing
process of the acculturation of European and Native American Mythologies of werewolves. By these all, in the last subchapter, I need to compare them in order to
find the similarities and differences from those novels The Wolfen and New Moon.
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CHAPTER 4. IDEOLOGICAL ECHOES OF WER EWOLVES FROM MYTHOLOGY TO FICTION: A COMPARATIVE STUD Y ON WHITLEY
STRIEBER’S THE WOLFEN AND STEPHENIE MEYER’S NEWMOON
4.1 The Ideological Echoes of We rewolves from European Mythology to
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