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Fiction for Young Adults 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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Conclusion and Revision II
The second lecture giving a conclusion and revision to 'Fiction for Young Adults'.
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Conclusion and Revision I
The first lecture giving a conclusion and revision to 'Fiction for Young Adults'.
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How 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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I 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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Changing 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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Changing 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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Customer Reviews
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.