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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Children's and Young Adult Literature"”.
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A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media
This doctoral thesis, entitled A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media, is an anticolonial and decolonial analysis of childhoods and youth under colonial occupation in Puerto Rico at the turn of the twenty-first century. As a mixed genre …
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The acceptance of womanhood: gender performance and self-actualization in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the island
… cultural conception of what it is to be a woman, and in literary criticism that preconceived notion of womanhood becomes the basis for a majority of feminist critique; however, because of the particularities of human experience, gender is a highly variable aspect of identity that is reliant on …
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Wimps, dorks, and reluctant readers: Redefining literacy in multimodal middle grade diary books
… has gained popularity. The series features “handwritten,” journal entries and drawings and has elicited many imitators, the most prominent of which is Rachel Renee Russell’s <em>Dork Diaries</em>. While the diary form is not new to children’s literature, these series reinvent the established …
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FATHERS, SONS, AND PETS: INTERGENERATIONAL DESIRE AND TRAUMA IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GAY ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY IN I'LL GET THERE. IT BETTER BE WORTH THE TRIP AND THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE
<p>Along with having similarities in their themes and narrative perspectives, John Donovan’s <em>I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip</em>. (1969) and Isabel Holland’s <em>The Man Without a Face</em> (1972) use similar tropes like attraction to older men and the death of the protagonists’ …
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Epic Adolescence: Contemporary Adolescence in Philip Pullman’s <i>His Dark Materials</i>
… it can help to look at the world of fiction and fantasy. Though this idea may seem ironic or counter-intuitive, one will find that fictional literature can reveal the working order of its respective society. Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials, uses and manipulates the …
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An Intergalactic Diplomat
… throne of the Royal Republic of North America and is trying to prove to her authoritarian mother, and to herself, that she is worthy of her birthright. Across the universe she makes friends and enemies, experiences true betrayal, and realizes that she has what it takes to be a great leader.</p>
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Brave new forms: Adaptation, remediation, and intertextuality in the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret
… changed the way readers approach, experience, and respond to texts. In our hyper-mediated culture, images and texts converge and disseminate across multiple media platforms, changing once-passive readers and spectators into active agents in the intellectual and creative process of …
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Sex, Consent, and Autonomy in Twilight and Vampire Academy
The thesis discusses how two popular young adult series, Twilight and Vampire Academy, use vampires to aid in conversations revolving around prevalent teenage issues such as sex, consent, and autonomy. Both series have romantic relationships at the forefront of their plot. By having the main …
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Not So Magical: Issues with Racism, Classism, and Ideology in Harry Potter
<p>Although it is primarily a young adult fantasy series, the <em>Harry Potter </em>books are also focused on the battle against racial purification and the threat of a strictly homogeneous magical society. This thesis examines the intricacies and depth of the racial ideologies presented in the …
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Observation on foreign children's literature in Taiwan: The future of local children's literature in Taiwan
<p>Formosa-Taiwan is a small island with a unique culture. Because of its blood relationship with China, Taiwan inherits the traditional Chinese cultural features from mainland China. Inside Taiwan, the indigenous cultures are going to fade, while the increasing number of the children of foreign …
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Reading queer subtexts in children’s literature
<p>The purpose of this project is to explore and to challenge heteronormative assumptions regarding childhood and adolescence. I will show how these assumptions affect the literature published and made available to young readers, and how, often, overtly queer texts are not available for young …
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Unbinding Piratical Themes: Treasure Island, The Unbinding of Mary Reade, and Piratical History
<p>Robert Louis Stevenson’s <em>Treasure Island, </em>a touchstone in children’s literature, is known among critics as the novel that popularized numerous piratical themes and tropes as well as the classic pirate archetype, which has been emulated in fictional pirates ever since. Long John Silver, …
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Only a body “who nobody owns:” Adolescent identity in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
… Owens, who grows up in a graveyard with ghosts and a vampire as primary guardians. While Bod is not technically an adolescent for the entire novel, he is constantly struggling with adolescent themes—primarily being in a liminal state—and the graveyard provides a heterotopian space for Bod to …
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A Proposal for a Writing Center and a Peer Tutor Training Course at Fayetteville High School
<p>The following thesis is a proposal to begin a writing center at Fayetteville High School. The first part of the thesis document describes the research supporting the implementation of a writing center. The rest of the thesis provides the syllabus for the peer tutor-training course.</p>
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