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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"YA Literature"”.
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ENGAGING SECONDARY STUDENTS: THE BENEFICIAL INTERSECTION OF YOUNG ADULT AND CLASSIC LITERATURE
… attributes of both classic and young adult (YA) literature are significant, even when read separately. However, the benefits of pairing classic and YA literature together are even greater; yet, teachers often avoid integrating YA literature for a variety of reasons (Velazquez). Both …
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Creating a Place for Monstrosity: The Forced Liminality and Limited Mobility of Codified Monstrosity in Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars
<p>The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) outlines the purpose of young adult (YA) literature as addressing the unique needs of adolescents, which are “distinguished by unique needs that are – at minimum — physical, intellectual, emotional, and societal in nature” (Cart “Value” para. …
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In-Group, Out-Group, or All of the Above: The Advantages of Young Adult Literature for Empathic and Cognitive Engagement with Minority Protagonists
… a meaningful group categorization in young adult literature, and that it provides an in-group affiliation between the protagonist of a YA novel and an adolescent reader. It then further argues that this phenomenon changes how an adolescent reader would engage empathy with young adult novels …
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Fantasies of citizenship: adolescence and temporality in young adult literature
… as a potential citizen in young adult (YA) literature at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Engaging the field of children's and YA literature through queer and feminist theory, I analyze how the adolescent's proximity to, but inability to fully …
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Street Queens and Clean Teens: Melodramatic Approaches to AIDS in Young Adult Literature and Popular Culture
… melodramatic approaches to AIDS in Young Adult literature and popular culture in the United States from the mid-1980s to the present day: tear-jerking, over-the-top depictions of sexuality, death, and oppression. The YA novel has traditionally been derided as a literary form because of its …
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Are You There, God? It's I, Robot: Examining the Humanity of Androids and Cyborgs Through Young Adult Fiction
… of humanity through the lens of Young Adult (YA) novels featuring android or cyborg protagonists. This thesis presents recent developments in robotics and sets the stage for moral dilemmas that will arise as the technology becomes available to the public. I analyze current societal beliefs …
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Mothers, Madness, and Morality: A Care Ethics Approach to Mad Mother Characters in Contemporary Young Adult Literature
Every protagonist in young adult (YA) literature has a mother, whether they are loving, supportive, absent, dead or institutionalised. In the background of adolescent’s stories, a mother character’s neglect, selfishness, death, or other absence often serves the narrative function of enabling the …
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How Love is Like Drowning
<p>This thesis contains the first two acts of a novel about a young girl named Isabeau Jones. After the mysterious drowning death of her mother, Isabeau attempts to find her place as a girl, as a student, as a preternaturally gifted baseball player and as an outsider in a rural East Texas community …
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Representations of Dyslexia Across Genres in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
… genre studies, and children’s and young adult (YA) literature scholarship, this doctoral thesis centres the representations of dyslexia and dyslexics across genres. Commonly defined within the medical model of disability as the struggle to read, write, spell, and acquire literacy skills, …
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Multiple Ways of Playing Serena and Blair: How Gossip Girl Revises the Role of Nancy Drew for a New Generation of Desiring-Machines
Previous studies on Cecily von Ziegesar's series Gossip Girl fail to explain the functionality of the series for the actual readers. Therefore, a discussion of the relationship between reader and text is necessary. By explaining from a literary perspective how reader and text interact, we can …
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Decolonizing the YA North: Environmental Injustice in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans
<p>Young Adult (YA) dystopias, in recent years, have imagined a future world fueled by the overuse and misuse of technology, the advancement of science for human gain, as well as societies ruled by governments that govern based on their own self-interests and economic gain. Such novels have opened …
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The poetics of hysterics: Feminine madness in Victorian English and modern Chinese women's literature
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:02:33Z Item is restricted indefinitely.