Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction /

Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction /

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This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but rather an essential, occasion...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gruner, Elisabeth Rose (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Subjects:
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature, Modern-21st century.
Fiction.
Literature-Philosophy.
Popular Culture.
Contemporary Literature.
Literary Theory.
Popular Culture .
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Young Adults, Reading, and Young Adult Reading
  • 2. Reading in School
  • 3. Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance
  • 4. "Dreaming Themselves into Existence": Reading and Race
  • 5. Magic, Prophetic, and Sacred Books: Making Communities of Readers
  • 6. Reading, Resistance, and Political Agency
  • 7. Epilogue: Reading Reading in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.