The Critical Merits of Young Adult 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 The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature write by Crag Hill. This book was released on 2014-03-05. The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers two key questions asked by many teachers and scholars in the field: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as literature? Is it worthy of close study? The treatment is both conceptual and pragmatic. Each chapter discusses a topical text set of YA novels in a conceptual framework—how these novels contribute to or deconstruct conventional wisdom about key topics from identity formation to awareness of world issues, while also providing a springboard in secondary and college classrooms for critical discussion of these novels. Uncloaking many of the issues that have been essentially invisible in discussions of YA literature, these essays can then guide the design of curriculum through which adolescent readers hone the necessary skills to unpack the ideologies embedded in YA narratives. The annotated bibliography provides supplementary articles and books germane to all the issues discussed. Closing "End Points" highlight and reinforce cross-cutting themes throughout the book and tie the essays together.
The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature
The Critical Merits of Young Adult 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 The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature write by Crag Hill. This book was released on 2014-03-05. The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers two key questions asked by many teachers and scholars in the field: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as literature? Is it worthy of close study? The treatment is both conceptual and pragmatic. Each chapter discusses a topical text set of YA novels in a conceptual framework—how these novels contribute to or deconstruct conventional wisdom about key topics from identity formation to awareness of world issues, while also providing a springboard in secondary and college classrooms for critical discussion of these novels. Uncloaking many of the issues that have been essentially invisible in discussions of YA literature, these essays can then guide the design of curriculum through which adolescent readers hone the necessary skills to unpack the ideologies embedded in YA narratives. The annotated bibliography provides supplementary articles and books germane to all the issues discussed. Closing "End Points" highlight and reinforce cross-cutting themes throughout the book and tie the essays together.
Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature
Critical Foundations in Young Adult 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 Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature write by Antero Garcia. This book was released on 2013-11-19. Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Young Adult literature, from The Outsiders to Harry Potter, has helped shape the cultural landscape for adolescents perhaps more than any other form of consumable media in the twentieth and twenty-first century. With the rise of mega blockbuster films based on these books in recent years, the young adult genre is being co-opted by curious adult readers and by Hollywood producers. However, while the genre may be getting more readers than ever before, Young Adult literature remains exclusionary and problematic: few titles feature historically marginalized individuals, the books present heteronormative perspectives, and gender stereotypes continue to persist. Taking a critical approach, Young Adult Literature: Challenging Genres offers educators, youth librarians, and students a set of strategies for unpacking, challenging, and transforming the assumptions of some of the genre's most popular titles. Pushing the genre forward, Antero Garcia builds on his experiences as a former high school teacher to offer strategies for integrating Young Adult literature in a contemporary critical pedagogy through the use of participatory media.
Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature
Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult 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 Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature write by R. Joseph Rodríguez. This book was released on 2018-07-11. Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse readers and all students. This book provides an outline for the study of literature through cultural and literary criticism, via essays that analyze selected YA literature (drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) in four areas: scribal identities and the self-affirmation of adolescents; gender and sexualities; schooling and education of young adult characters; and teachers’ roles and influences in characters’ coming of age. Applying critical literacy theories and a youth studies lens, this book shines a light on the need for culturally sustaining and inclusive pedagogies to read adolescent worlds. Complementing these essays are critical conversations with seven key contemporary YA literature writers, adding biographical perspectives to further expand the critical scholarship and merits of YA literature.
Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature
Critical Survey of Young Adult 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 Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature write by Amy Pattee. This book was released on 2016. Critical Survey of Young Adult Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides thoughtful examination of the authors, works, genres, themes and film adaptations that have contributed to the popularity and success of the young adult genre.
