Fiction for Young Adults
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.
- 53 minutes 40 secondsConclusion and Revision II
The second lecture giving a conclusion and revision to 'Fiction for Young Adults'.
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5 October 2012, 12:47 am - 54 minutes 56 secondsConclusion and Revision I
The first lecture giving a conclusion and revision to 'Fiction for Young Adults'.
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3 October 2012, 3:14 am - 54 minutes 47 secondsHow a Reader Develops a Response
Once a reader forms a response, how is the next step taken? How are analysis of books communicated to the rest of the world?
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21 September 2012, 12:09 am - 47 minutes 52 secondsI Can Make up my Own Mind
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?
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21 September 2012, 12:05 am - 54 minutes 29 secondsChanging Forms of Storytelling II
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.
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21 September 2012, 12:03 am - 50 minutes 15 secondsChanging Forms of Storytelling I
Alternative forms of telling stories. How does poetry and the 'verse novel' change the way a story is told?
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14 September 2012, 1:58 am - 51 minutes 44 secondsMoral Ambiguity in The Hunger Games
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.
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9 September 2012, 10:57 pm - 49 minutes 35 secondsUtopias and Dystopias
What are the characteristics of utopias and dystopias in young adult fiction? What are their origins? How does The Hunger Games use these themes?
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4 September 2012, 4:52 am - 52 minutes 19 secondsThe Gendering of Storytelling
What mechanisms are used to establish a gendered tone to the mechanisms of a story?
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31 August 2012, 12:12 am - 52 minutes 19 secondsGirls Books and Boys Books
What is the difference in how a book is written for a girl audience or boy audience?
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30 August 2012, 1:34 am - 53 minutes 36 secondsRomance and Vampires
David Beagley on how the perception of vampires have changed, and how they are portrayed in modern fiction such as Twilight.
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