Fiction for Young Adults

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Conclusion and Revision II

2012-10-0553:40

Conclusion and Revision I

2012-10-0354:56

How a Reader Develops a Response

2012-09-2154:47

Once a reader forms a response, how is the next step taken? How are analysis of books communicated to the rest of the world? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

I Can Make up my Own Mind

2012-09-2147:52

Over the course of this subject you would have encountered books that you love, books that you loathe, and books that you are indifferent towards. Why is this the case? How does a reader interpret and judge a book? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Changing Forms of Storytelling II

2012-09-2154:29

The ways that the story can be delivered, and the questions it raises about the nature of 'the author', 'the reader', and how 'the story' is changed. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Changing Forms of Storytelling I

2012-09-1450:15

Alternative forms of telling stories. How does poetry and the 'verse novel' change the way a story is told? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Moral Ambiguity in The Hunger Games

2012-09-0951:44

What is the primary world? Where is our world in The Hunger Games? What are the elements that we can take directly from it? Some of it is going to be decoration, others more direct. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Utopias and Dystopias

2012-09-0449:35

What are the characteristics of utopias and dystopias in young adult fiction? What are their origins? How does The Hunger Games use these themes? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

The Gendering of Storytelling

2012-08-3152:19

Girls Books and Boys Books

2012-08-3052:19

Romance and Vampires

2012-08-3053:36

David Beagley on how the perception of vampires have changed, and how they are portrayed in modern fiction such as Twilight. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

What it is to be Young and in Love

2012-08-2151:13

David Beagley on how romance is portrayed in fiction for young adults, looking at both Pride and Prejudice and Twilight. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Perceiving 'the Voice' in a Story

2012-08-2052:13

Me in My World

2012-08-2051:34

David Beagley on the idea of identity of the central character in the context of their world, the larger society and their social awareness. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Creating Meaning in Fiction

2012-08-1350:19

Me and My Identity

2012-08-0950:48

David Beagley on representation and identity in young adult fiction. How do readers seek and determine the self? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

War in Young Adult Fiction

2012-08-0944:53

The Turmoil of the Teenager

2012-08-0351:53

Defining Young Adult Fiction

2012-07-2754:21

David Beagley defines fiction for young adults, and the common themes you can find in them, no matter when they were written. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Introduction

2012-07-2447:45

David Beagley introduces Fiction for Young Adults - theories around the definition of adolescence, assumptions about Young Adult readers and consequent assumptions about Young Adult Literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

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