Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

Young Adult fiction has been an economic juggernaut since the 1990s. This timely new book provides a historically-informed analysis of how recent popular and literary fiction (including The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the Twilight series and The Fault in Our Stars) for teens responds to the perceived 'literacy crisis' in teen culture. This project explores commonalities between the texts, asking: what defines YA fiction today? Why does it matter? And is there really a crisis in teen reading? The project delves deeply into the literature that teens are reading as well as the literature about their reading government reports, educational theory, and cognitive science in order to examine the 'literacy crisis' as it applies to teen readers today.

Author: Elisabeth Rose Gruner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/04/2019
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781137539236
ISBN10: 1137539232
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Modern | General
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Social Science | Popular Culture

About the Author

Elisabeth Rose Gruner teaches English at the University of Richmond, USA, where she has served as Director of the First-Year Seminar Program and Academic Advising Resource Center as well as Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences. Her research has been published in various journals and edited collections.