Fictions of Adolescent Carnality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fictions of Adolescent Carnality write by Lydia Kokkola. This book was released on 2013-05-03. Fictions of Adolescent Carnality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting and, just occasionally, a source of pleasure. The on-set of desire, within the Anglophone tradition, has been closely associated with the loss of innocence and the end of childhood. Drawing on a corpus of 200 narratives of adolescent desire, Kokkola examines the connections between sociological accounts of teenagers’ sexual behaviour, adult fears for and about their off-spring and fictional representations of adolescents exploring their sexuality. Taking up topics such as adolescent pregnancy and parenthood, queer sexualities, animal-human connections and sexual abuse, Kokkola provides wide-ranging insights into how Anglophone literature responds to adolescents’ carnal desires, and contributes to on-going debates on the construction of adolescence and the ideology of innocence.
Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature
Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature write by Clementine Beauvais. This book was released on 2018-02-16. Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduces you to the promises and problems of Charles Taylor's thought in major contemporary debates
Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction
Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction write by Alice Crossley. This book was released on 2018-07-06. Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless distinguishable from other masculine types. Important more as a stage of psychological awareness and maturation than as a period of biological youth, Crossley argues that the plasticity of male adolescence provides Meredith, Thackeray, and Trollope with opportunities for self-reflection and social criticism while also working as a paradigm for narrative and imaginative inquiry about motivation, egotism, emotional and physical relationships, and the possibilities of self-creation. Adolescence emerges as a crucial stage of individual growth, adopted by these authors in order to reflect more fully on cultural and personal anxieties about manliness. The centrality of male youth in these authors’ novels, Crossley demonstrates, repositions age-consciousness as an integral part of nineteenth-century debates about masculine heterogeneity.
Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction write by Leah Phillips. This book was released on 2023-01-26. Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The heroic romance is one of the West's most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature. Within this story, adolescent girls are not, and cannot be, the heroes. They are, at best, the hero's bride, a prize he wins for slaying monsters. Crucially, although the girl's exclusion from heroic selfhood affects all girls, it does not do so equally- whiteness and able-bodiedness are taken as markers of heightened, fantasy femininity. Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction explores how the young female-heroes of mythopoeic YA, a Tolkienian-inspired genre drawing on myth's world-creating power and YA's liminal potential, disrupt the conventional heroic narrative. These heroes, such as Tamora Pierce's Alanna the Lioness, Daine the Wildmage, and Marissa Meyer's Cinder and Iko, offer a model of being-hero, an embodied way of living and being in this world that disrupts the typical hero's violent hierarchy, isolating individuality, and erasure of difference. In doing so, they push the boundaries of what it means to be a hero, a girl, and even human.
Young Adult Gothic Fiction
Young Adult Gothic Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Young Adult Gothic Fiction write by Michelle J. Smith. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Young Adult Gothic Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection is the first to focus exclusively on twenty-first-century young adult Gothic fiction. The essays demonstrate how the contemporary resurgence of the Gothic signals anxieties about (and hopes for) young people in the twenty-first century. Changing conceptions of young adults as liminal figures, operating between the modes of child and adult, can be mobilised when combined with Gothic spaces and concepts in texts for young people. In young adult Gothic literature, the crossing of boundaries typical of the Gothic is often motivated by a heterosexual romance plot, in which the human or monstrous female protagonist desires a boy who is not her ‘type’. Additionally, as the Gothic works to define what it means to be human – particularly in relation to gender, race, and identity – the volume also examines how contemporary shifts and flashpoints in identity politics are being negotiated under the metaphoric cloak of monstrosity.
