Fiction for Young Adults

by David Beagley
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From Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, Looking for Alibrandi to The Hunger Games, students in this subject will analyse factors affecting the emergence and development of fiction for young adults as a distinctive literature category over the last twenty years. Students will also focus on recent trends in this field, including the development of a range of critical perspectives for interpreting themes, issues and responses to this literature by adults and adolescents.

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Recent Episodes
  • Conclusion and Revision II
    Oct 5, 2012 – 53:40
  • Conclusion and Revision I
    Oct 3, 2012 – 54:56
  • How a Reader Develops a Response
    Sep 21, 2012 – 54:47
  • I Can Make up my Own Mind
    Sep 21, 2012 – 47:52
  • Changing Forms of Storytelling II
    Sep 21, 2012 – 54:29
  • Changing Forms of Storytelling I
    Sep 14, 2012 – 50:15
  • Moral Ambiguity in The Hunger Games
    Sep 10, 2012 – 51:44
  • Utopias and Dystopias
    Sep 4, 2012 – 49:35
  • The Gendering of Storytelling
    Aug 31, 2012 – 52:19
  • Girls Books and Boys Books
    Aug 30, 2012 – 52:19
  • Romance and Vampires
    Aug 30, 2012 – 53:36
  • What it is to be Young and in Love
    Aug 21, 2012 – 51:13
  • Perceiving 'the Voice' in a Story
    Aug 20, 2012 – 52:13
  • Me in My World
    Aug 20, 2012 – 51:34
  • Creating Meaning in Fiction
    Aug 13, 2012 – 50:19
  • Me and My Identity
    Aug 9, 2012 – 50:48
  • War in Young Adult Fiction
    Aug 9, 2012 – 44:53
  • The Turmoil of the Teenager
    Aug 3, 2012 – 51:53
  • Defining Young Adult Fiction
    Jul 27, 2012 – 54:21
  • Introduction
    Jul 24, 2012 – 47:45
Recent Reviews
  • cghmn7
    Nice lecture series.
    Material dragged a bit in the middle, possibly due to my lack of interest in Twilight, but was the series was interesting and mostly well paced.
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