Constructing the adolescent reader in contemporary young adult fiction / Elisabeth Rose Gruner.
Gruner, Elisabeth Rose, author.
2019
PS374.Y57 G78 2019
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Title Constructing the adolescent reader in contemporary young adult fiction / Elisabeth Rose Gruner.
Author Gruner, Elisabeth Rose, author.
ISBN 9781137539243 (electronic book)
1137539240 (electronic book)
9781137539236
1137539232
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53924-3
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53
Published London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-53924-3 doi
10.1057/978-1-137-53
Call Number PS374.Y57 G78 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.89283
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 19, 2019).
Series Critical approaches to children's literature.
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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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