Tracing the weave: reading and interpreting young adult fiction

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dc.contributor.authorMoore, John Noellen
dc.contributor.departmentCurriculum and Instructionen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:09:07Zen
dc.date.adate2007-02-02en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:09:07Zen
dc.date.issued1995en
dc.date.rdate2007-02-02en
dc.date.sdate2007-02-02en
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation demonstrates how the study of young adult fiction can be illuminated by a working knowledge of contemporary literary theories, viewing these theories as strategies, approaches to interpretation. The text reflects the author’s education in theory, his belief that a basic knowledge of theory provides a rich repertoire of new ways of reading, and his consideration of the ways in which theory can be used by both teachers and students in secondary and university classrooms. The text introduces literary theory to those who have little or no experience with it, explaining how theory establishes and explores relationships among author, reader, text, and cultural contexts. Its conversational style encourages readers to explore the practical applications of theory in their work. Each chapter discusses one theory and demonstrates its application in a close reading of one young adult text: Formalism (Virginia Hamilton’s M. C. Higgins, the Great); archetypal theory (Gary Paulsen’s Dogsong); structuralism/semiotics (Bruce Brooks’ The Moves Make the Man); poststructuralism/deconstruction (Lois Lowry’s The Giver); reader-response theories (Walter Dean Myers’ Fallen Angels); feminism (Budge Wilson’s short story collection The Leaving); black aesthetics (Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying); cultural studies (M. E. Kerr’s Night Kites); and the application of several theories to Katherine Patterson’s Jacob Have I Loved. The concluding chapter sets the voices of theorists and teachers into conversations about the implications for theory in the English classroom.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.extentxvi, 489 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-02022007-133645en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02022007-133645/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/37282en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V856_1995.M667.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 33121603en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subject.lccLD5655.V856 1995.M667en
dc.titleTracing the weave: reading and interpreting young adult fictionen
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineCurriculum and Instructionen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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