Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

• Main Author: Gruner, Elisabeth Rose (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Fiction.; Literature-Philosophy.; Popular Culture.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary Theory.; Popular Culture .

This book examines the way young adult readers are constructed in a variety of contemporary young adult fictions, arguing that contemporary young adult novels depict readers as agents. Reading, these novels suggest, is neither an unalloyed good nor a dangerous ploy, but rather an essential, occasion...