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.

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Conclusion and Revision II

Oct 05, 2012•54 min

Conclusion and Revision I

Oct 03, 2012•55 min

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? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Sep 21, 2012•55 min

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? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Sep 21, 2012•48 min

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. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Sep 21, 2012•54 min

Changing Forms of Storytelling I

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.

Sep 14, 2012•50 min

Moral 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. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Sep 09, 2012•52 min

Utopias 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? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Sep 04, 2012•50 min

The Gendering of Storytelling

Aug 31, 2012•52 min

Girls Books and Boys Books

Aug 30, 2012•52 min

Romance and Vampires

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.

Aug 30, 2012•54 min

What it is to be Young and in Love

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.

Aug 21, 2012•51 min

Perceiving 'the Voice' in a Story

Aug 20, 2012•52 min

Me in My World

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.

Aug 20, 2012•52 min

Creating Meaning in Fiction

Aug 13, 2012•50 min

Me and My Identity

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.

Aug 09, 2012•51 min

War in Young Adult Fiction

Aug 09, 2012•45 min

The Turmoil of the Teenager

Aug 03, 2012•52 min

Defining Young Adult Fiction

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.

Jul 27, 2012•54 min

Introduction

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.

Jul 24, 2012•48 min

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