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Exploding the Myths

The Truth about Teenagers and Reading

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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We are in the midst of the largest teenage population boom since the nineteen sixties, and all of the media are scrambling to reach this alert, savvy, wealthy, and self-conscious generation. But for authors, editors, parents, teachers, and librarians this large group of readers poses a series of special problems: what is too old, or too young for teenage eyes? Should there even be a literature for teenagers, or wouldn't they be better off skipping ahead to adult books? Do boys read at all? Can books offer moral instruction, role models, or guidance on the path to adulthood? Where do books fit into the ever-growing set of multimedia options that are this generation's birthright?Marc Aronson, Ph.D. has won the LMP, the industry award for editing, and the Boston Globe Horn Book award for writing books for teenagers. Here, in a series of probing, innovative essays he marshals a decade of insights earned in practice as well as his knowledge as a scholar of publishing history, to pose and answer key questions about the true potential of young adult literature. As he revels in the passion of its readers he exposes the real problem with teenagers and reading: adult myths, projections, and blind prejudices. Exploding the Myths is a provocative book that will be necessary reading for everyone who deals with this burgeoning generation of readers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-02-21
Mått148 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt356 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Young Adult Literature
Antal sidor160
FörlagScarecrow Press
ISBN9780810839045

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Chapter 1 Foreword by Bruce BrooksChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1 "The YA Novel Is Dead" and Other Fairly Stupid TalesChapter 5 2 The Three Faces of MulticulturalismChapter 6 3 The Challenge and the Glory of YA LiteratureChapter 7 4 The Journals JudgedChapter 8 5 How Adult Is Young Adult?Chapter 9 6 We Have Nothing to Lose but Our IsolationChapter 10 7 When Coming of Age Meets the Age That's Coming: One Editor's View of How Young Adult Publishing Developed in AmericaChapter 11 8 Exploring the Basement: The Artistic Challenge of YA LiteratureChapter 12 9 What Is Real about Realism? All the Wrong Questions about YA LiteratureChapter 13 10 The Power of WordsChapter 14 11 The Myths of TeenageChapter 15 12 Calling All Ye Printz and PrintzessesChapter 16 13 Puff the Magic Dragon: How the Newest Young Adult Fiction Grapples with a World in UpheavalChapter 17 14 What is YA, and What Is Its Future: Voice, Form, and Access— A Dialogue with Jacqueline WoodsonChapter 18 IndexChapter 19 About the Author

...this provocative collection of speeches and previously published essays challenges those who work with teenagers and their reading to shift paradigms, shatter illusions, and examine the essence of young adult literature...Librarians, teachers, students and professors of adolescent literature, publishers, editors, and authors need to read and contemplate this worthy companion to Michael Cart's excellent From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature (HarperCollins, 1996).

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