From Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, Looking for Alibrandi to The Hunger Games, students in this subject will analyse factors affecting the emergence and development of fiction for young adults as a distinctive literature category over the last twenty years. Students will also focus on recent trends in this field, including the development of a range of critical perspectives for interpreting themes, issues and responses to this literature by adults and adolescents.
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From Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, Looking for Alibrandi to The Hunger Games, students in this subject will analyse factors affecting the emergence and development of fiction for young adults as a distinctive literature category over the last twenty years. Students will also focus on recent trends in this field, including the development of a range of critical perspectives for interpreting themes, issues and responses to this literature by adults and adolescents.
The second lecture giving a conclusion and revision to 'Fiction for Young Adults'.
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The first lecture giving a conclusion and revision to 'Fiction for Young Adults'.
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Once a reader forms a response, how is the next step taken? How are analysis of books communicated to the rest of the world?
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Over the course of this subject you would have encountered books that you love, books that you loathe, and books that you are indifferent towards. Why is this the case? How does a reader interpret and judge a book?
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The ways that the story can be delivered, and the questions it raises about the nature of 'the author', 'the reader', and how 'the story' is changed.
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Alternative forms of telling stories. How does poetry and the 'verse novel' change the way a story is told?
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What are the characteristics of utopias and dystopias in young adult fiction? What are their origins? How does The Hunger Games use these themes?
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What are the characteristics of utopias and dystopias in young adult fiction? What are their origins? How does The Hunger Games use these themes?
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What mechanisms are used to establish a gendered tone to the mechanisms of a story?
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What is the difference in how a book is written for a girl audience or boy audience?
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David Beagley on how the perception of vampires have changed, and how they are portrayed in modern fiction such as Twilight.
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David Beagley on how romance is portrayed in fiction for young adults, looking at both Pride and Prejudice and Twilight.
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David Beagley on the way that we hear a particular voice that is telling us a story.
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David Beagley on the idea of identity of the central character in the context of their world, the larger society and their social awareness.
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David Beagley on the formal structure of literary analysis.
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David Beagley on representation and identity in young adult fiction. How do readers seek and determine the self?
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David Beagley on how the serious themes of war is portrayed in young adult fiction.
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David Beagley on 'the problem novel', and how teen books consider serious social issues.
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David Beagley defines fiction for young adults, and the common themes you can find in them, no matter when they were written.
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David Beagley introduces Fiction for Young Adults - theories around the definition of adolescence, assumptions about Young Adult readers and consequent assumptions about Young Adult Literature.
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From Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, Looking for Alibrandi to The Hunger Games, students in this subject will analyse factors affecting the emergence and development of fiction for young adults as a distinctive literature category over the last twenty years. Students will also focus on recent trends in this field, including the development of a range of critical perspectives for interpreting themes, issues and responses to this literature by adults and adolescents.
