Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gruner, Elisabeth Rose (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XI, 192 p. 1 illus.
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Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Critical Approaches to Children's Literature,
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern > 21st century.
Fiction.
Literature > Philosophy.
Popular Culture.
Contemporary Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Literary Theory.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53924-3
Format: Electronic eBook
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Young Adults, Reading, and Young Adult Reading
  • 2. Reading in School
  • 3. Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance
  • 4. “Dreaming Themselves into Existence”: Reading and Race
  • 5. Magic, Prophetic, and Sacred Books: Making Communities of Readers
  • 6. Reading, Resistance, and Political Agency
  • 7. Epilogue: Reading Reading in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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