عنوان

Constructing the adolescent reader in contemporary young adult fiction /

(Number (ISBN

1137539240

(Number (ISBN

1349711721

(Number (ISBN

134971173X

(Number (ISBN

9781137539243

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9781349711727

(Number (ISBN

9781349711734

Erroneous ISBN

1137539232

Erroneous ISBN

9781137539236

Title Proper

Constructing the adolescent reader in contemporary young adult fiction /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Elisabeth Rose Gruner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London, United Kingdom :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Critical approaches to children's literature

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: Young Adults, Reading, and Young Adult Reading -- Reading in School -- Misreading the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Agency in YA Romance -- "Dreaming Themselves into Existence": Reading and Race -- Magic, Prophetic, and Sacred Books: Making Communities of Readers -- Reading, Resistance, and Political Agency -- Epilogue: Reading Reading in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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Text of Note

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, occasionally fraught, by turns escapist and instrumental, deeply pleasurable, and highly contentious activity that has value far beyond the classroom skills or the specific content it conveys. After an introductory chapter that examines the state of reading and young adult fiction today, the book examines novels that depict reading in school, gendered and racialized reading, reading magical and religious books, and reading as a means to developing civic agency. These examinations reveal that books for teens depict teen readers as doers, and suggest that their ability to read deeply, critically, and communally is crucial to the development of adolescent agency.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Springer Nature

Stock Number

com.springer.onix.9781137539243

International Standard Book Number

9781137539236

International Standard Book Number

9781349711727

International Standard Book Number

9781349711734

Teenagers-- Books and reading.

Young adult fiction.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

Teenagers-- Books and reading.

Young adult fiction.

BIO-- 007000

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DSBH

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Gruner, Elisabeth Rose

Date of Transaction

20200822155734.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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