Fiction for Young Adults

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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 trend…

David Beagley

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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.

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I Can Make up my Own Mind

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2012 47:52

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.

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Changing Forms of Storytelling II

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2012 54:29

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.

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Changing Forms of Storytelling I

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2012 50:15

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.

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Moral Ambiguity in The Hunger Games

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2012 51:44

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.

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Utopias and Dystopias

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2012 49:35

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.

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The Gendering of Storytelling

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2012 52:19

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Girls Books and Boys Books

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2012 52:19

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Romance and Vampires

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2012 53:36

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.

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What it is to be Young and in Love

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2012 51:13

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.

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Perceiving 'the Voice' in a Story

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2012 52:13

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Me in My World

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2012 51:34

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.

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Creating Meaning in Fiction

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2012 50:19

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Me and My Identity

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2012 50:48

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.

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War in Young Adult Fiction

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2012 44:53

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The Turmoil of the Teenager

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2012 51:53

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Defining Young Adult Fiction

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2012 54:21

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.

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Introduction

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2012 47:45

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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