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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"adult fantasy"”.
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Ecoconscious: Skilful Sensing in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
… thesis reveals that, vitally, contemporary YA fantasy novels tend to represent the senses as skills and thereby convey human participation in nature with some optimism. Human characters who learn to sense skilfully value their humanimal embodiment and interact responsively with nonhumans, …
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Hermione syndrome: Reexamining feminist sidekicks and power in 2000-2010 children’s and young adult fantasy literature
… decade saw a proliferation of English language fantasy texts for young readers. In the wake of <em>Harry Potter’s</em> success, many other fantasy series followed patterns laid down in Rowling’s text, including writing female characters as Hermione-shaped girls and women. While there are …
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Fur, fangs and feathers: colonial and counter-colonial portrayals of American Indians in young adult fantasy literature
… American characters in children’s and young adult literature, the majority of these have focused on historical novels, rather than analysing fantasy literature. Additionally, I have found no direct comparisons between texts by Native and non-Native authors, and the impact of authorship on the …
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The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy
<p><em>The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy </em>explores the power of the dictator novel in Latinx literature, specifically within the young adult fantasy genre. Drawing upon the work of Jennifer Harford-Vargas to examine the relationship between the forms of power and the power of the …
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The Seventh Plateau
… <em>The Seventh Plateau</em> is a young adult fantasy novel set on the fictional planet Aeris. The story follows the journey of an unlikely group of allies who embark on a mission to stop an ancient evil from destroying their world.</p>
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Pain or Pleasure: The Allure of the Masochistic Young Adult Fantasy Protagonist, As Seen in Twilight and Other Texts : With a particular focus on the language of sexuality used within a select number of young adult paranormal romance texts
… presented in a highly negative way within young adult literature. In the cases where sexual abuse does happen within young adult literature, it is then excused and identified as masochism. There is a lack of research in this area that rightly identifies the differences between sexual abuse and …
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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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City of devils
… contains two parts: a craft paper on merging fantasy and mystery genres and the first fifty pages of an adult fantasy mystery novel. The craft paper explores different strategies authors use to navigate the tension between mystery and the supernatural, and it analyzes these strategies in three …
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Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture
… highlighting a selection of middle grade/young adult fantasy novels and introducing my MFA thesis project as a part of that tradition, I discuss the need for books which invite families to come together and contemplate the joys and sorrows of the human experience.</p>
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Finding the Fantastic: Digitally Mapping the London of Fantasy Youth Literature
… be found in literature for children and young adults. Research has shown that studies of space and place in literature are once again taking centre stage as an emerging technology in the Digital Humanities allows scholars to re-explore literary landscapes through digital maps. This dissertation …
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Imagination at the progressive border: can fantasy literature foster a liminal space for social justice-oriented narrative-based belief change in the individual?
… (2019) and Trębicki (2011) have discussed how fantasy literature responds to the time in which it is created and the way in which it can introduce ideas about progressive change. Drobot (2019) also suggests that fantasy novels help us think about the past and how societal beliefs and values …
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Notes of Venom and Vengeance
<p>In this new adult epic fantasy, the land is either poisoned or poisonous, the Gods don’t listen, and the Silvan High Fae have vanished into the mists of time. In the Silgan Empire in the city of Fall’s End, humans run the Kingdom while Low Fae like Madrigal struggle to make ends meet in the …
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Sisters of Sun and Moon
<p>Novel excerpt.</p>
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The Reign of Fire and Blood
<p>"The Reign of Fire and Blood" tells the story of a world where the goddess Mother Nature created two species: the fae and the humans. The fae decided to enslave humans after centuries of war despite Mother Nature’s warning that a curse would be placed upon the fae if they did so. The novel takes …
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With the Light Caught Between
… This story seeks to combine the genre of young adult literature with fantastical elements in hopes of expanding conversations on self-perception and identity acceptance.</p>