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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Young Adult Fiction"”.
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Tracing the weave: reading and interpreting young adult fiction
This dissertation demonstrates how the study of young adult fiction can be illuminated by a working knowledge of contemporary literary theories, viewing these theories as strategies, approaches to interpretation. The text reflects the author’s education in theory, his belief that a basic knowledge …
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The use of peer-group slang in young adult fiction /
Every culture and every region within countries around the world has its own slang. Its informality and creativity attracts many people to use it as part of their daily language. It is a tool in communication that gives us social and personal identity. This means that with our individual …
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Representations of Social Media and Unreliable Narration in Relation to Identity Construction in Young Adult Fiction
… the impact of social media technology on young people, with a particular focus on digital identity construction and cyberbullying, and how this should or could be reflected within young-adult-fiction. The project also examines two young-adult fiction novels, Chris Lynch’s Inexcusable and …
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Korean/Korean American adolescents' responses to young adult fiction and media created by Korean/Korean Americans
Multicultural children’s and young adult literature provides readers with various opportunities: to mirror their lives and reflect the meanings of their own experiences; to gain insight on social issues as well as personal issues; and to enhance cross-cultural awareness. How might Korean/Korean …
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Finding the ‘human’ in the ‘posthuman’: The representation of the technologically enhanced posthuman in Young Adult fiction
… them in ways hitherto only imaginable in science-fiction. Moving beyond humanism, the human/technology relationship has caused the question of what it means to be human to be considered through posthuman thought. I see the reality of technology’s effect on human lives giving rise to the figure of …
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Are You There, God? It's I, Robot: Examining the Humanity of Androids and Cyborgs Through Young Adult Fiction
… and topics previously relegated to science fiction are becoming a reality. Science-fiction novels may in fact be an adolescent's first exposure to topics such as bio-enhancement or artificial intelligence (AI), among others. These novels could be instrumental in determining adolescents' …
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"Struggles to Become ""Americans"": Historical and Contemporary Experiences of Asian Pacific American Immigrants in Children's and Young Adult Fiction, 1945--1999"
Two hundred and seventy titles of children's fiction books were identified as books about Asian Pacific Americans that were published between 1945 and 1999. Although the publishing trends demonstrate an increase in quantity and improvement in quality, the number of books published is extremely …
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Literature for girls and the preadolescent novel: a historical analysis and recommendations for challenging the status quo
… and analysis of children’s literature and young adult fiction, examining literature’s role in children’s and young adults’ process of identity formation, as well as their conceptualizations about gender identity and gender appropriate behavior. There is little research and interrogation, …
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Life after Harry: creating a reader's advisory model based on the literary archetypes of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
… J. K. Rowling's popular <em>Harry Potter</em> fiction series as a base for developing this strategy. After identifying four character archetypes in the <em>Harry Potter</em> series, the researcher consulted Bowker's <em>Fiction Connection</em> database to find other award winning young adult …
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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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Dystopian Cinderellas: "I Follow Him into the Dark"
Research indicates that adolescents use fiction as a template for mitigating problems in their own lives based on the ways that fictional characters handle conflict. Dystopic narratives extrapolate on the potential sociopolitical consequences of contemporary social issues that adolescents face. In …
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Library access to Hispanic books in Bridgeton, New Jersey
… a combined bibliography of 78 award winning fiction Hispanic books. The researcher visited and checked each library through observation and by using the OPAC to search by author and title for each book.</p> <p>The results of the study showed the libraries in Bridgeton, New Jersey needed to …
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A content analysis of young adult novels featuring mentally and emotionally disabled characters
… study was to closely examine twenty works of young adult fiction that featured a character with either a mental or emotional disability. Specifically, it addressed the following research questions: 1.) What percentage of the books evaluated portrayed the disabled character as a major character …
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The process and importance of writing Aboriginal fiction for young adult readers: exegesis accompanying the novel "Calypso Summers"
… process and importance of writing Aboriginal fiction for young adult readers” is divided into three parts. Part A examines the impact of Indigenous protocols upon the process of writing that includes Aboriginal people, issues and culture. Part B explores the social realities of Aboriginal …
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#BlackBoyYALit: Seeing Black boys in 21st century young adult literature
… teens are portrayed in contemporary realistic fiction books published for young adults from 2000 to 2017. Educators and librarians’ value young adult literature not only for its role in developing adolescent literacy, but also for its ability to help teens to affirm their identities, observe …
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Searching the silences of war : a creative and theoretical exploration
… One, the creative component Finding Sophie, is a young adult novel and Part Two, Searching the Silence, is the accompanying exegesis. Both the novel and the exegesis explore the Anzac myth’s impact on war narratives, the omission of women’s experiences in those narratives and silences in official …
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Female heroism and self-fashioning in young adult adaptations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Haunted and Hunted: The Gothic and the Ghostly in The Light and Asylum
<p>Young adult Gothic horror fiction acts as a coming-of-age story wherein the protagonists must confront the metaphorical and literal ghosts while simultaneously attempting to establish a sense of identity. Applying Gothic theory and ghost theory to the ghostly stories in young adult Gothic horror …
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