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- Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality. Stories that focus on the challenges of youth may be further categorized as social or coming-of-age novels.
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For the purposes of this course, a broad definition for young adult literature is used that includes books written specifically for a teenage audience, books that focus on young adults as characters, and texts that may appeal to young audiences for a variety of reasons, regardless of the age of the characters or the intended target audience.
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Young adult fiction is generally described as books written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. It’s meant to be the next level of reading material after middle-grade fictionand softens the transition to adult fiction. It offers readers stories that are, in general, more emotionally and thematically advanced. YA isn’t really a genre, but a cate...
Young adult and adult literature can sometimes be hard to separate, since they often share similar themes, structures, and audiences. But there are key differences that justify their separation into two distinct categories. Below are just a few of their differences.
To give you a better idea of what a young adult story is, here are a few examples that you can check out.
According to a 2012 study, about 55% of buyers for literature intended for readers aged 12 to 17 are actually 18 years old or older, with 28% of that group aged 30 to 44. Most of them don’t buy it for others, as 78% of these adults purchase these books for their own reading. A 2015 studyfound that while adult fiction and nonfiction have dropped in ...
Feb 3, 2015 · Although applicable to a range of literary and cultural texts, in this article we focus on the uses of a YL for YAL, a body of writing whose named and intended audience is youth. Implicit in this approach is a consideration of how YAL participates in shaping and circulating views of adolescence/ts.
- Robert Petrone, Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides, Mark A. Lewis
- 2014
Dec 29, 2016 · A relatively consensual homogenization and equalization of the two categories can be seen in the material chosen. Children are verbalized as being happy and innocent (the surplus discourse), whereas in contrast, young people are regarded as being problematic and distressed (the deficit discourse).
- Martin Blok Johansen
- 2017
Though once dismissed as a genre consisting of little more than problem novels and romances, young adult literature has, since the mid-1990’s, come of age as literature – literature that welcomes artistic innovation, experimentation, and risk-taking.
much young adult literature has changed dramatically in the last twenty years. The trope that all young adult literature has in common is the search for identity. The dilemma, though, is that in our new post-human age, young people are often questioning not only their emo tional identity, but also their biological identity or just “what
First-Person Narration in Young Adult Literature Grounded in the three part literary concept of the narrator, the narratee, and the implied reader, this article provides teachers and students with a heuristic for uncovering, attending to, and critiquing assumptions about youth found in the first-person narrative form that predominates in
