Narrative pleasures in young adult novels, films, and video games /
[Book]
Margaret Mackey.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
xiii, 258 p. :
ill. ;
23 cm.
Critical approaches to children's literature
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-248) and index.
Asking the questions: how we understand stories -- Beginning: designing the project -- Thinking it through: theoretical frameworks -- Paying attention: provisional observations and inferences -- Entering the fiction: the subjunctive and the deictic centre -- Orienting: finding the way forward -- Filling gaps: inferences, closure, and affect linking -- Making progress or making do: the unconsidered middle -- Concluding: reaching provisional and final judgments -- Inhabiting the story: comparative perspectives -- Understanding narrative interpretation.