scholarly journals „Biorę życie i zamieniam w idealny kamień” — rzecz o warszawskim Bazyliszku

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Marta Niewieczerzał
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Urban Legends ◽  
Short Movie

The paper aims to examine images of the Basilisk in Polish children’s and young adult literature. It also compares the monster’s image known from traditional urban legends with its depictions in their postmodern versions. In the original variants of the legends, this creature takes various forms — supposed to be a monster that hatches from the egg laid by a rooster, it is often described as an animal the size of a hen, with a turkey neck and head and a frog’s eyes; partially a cock, partially a reptile, etc. The hybrid image of the Basilisk allows the elements of its characteristics to be used in later versions of the story and its re-workings. The analysis herein focuses on Legendy Warszawskie. Antologia [Warsaw Legends: An Anthology] (2016) which presents six versions of the Basilisk’s legend. These texts are juxtaposed with the project “Legends of Poland” by Allegro (e-book and a short movie Operacja Bazyliszek [Operation Basilisk]), as well as with the novel Felix, Net i Nika oraz Pułapka Nieśmiertelności [Felix, Net and Nika and the Trap of Immortality] (2007) by Rafał Kosik, and Księga Potworów [The  Book of Monsters] (2016) by Michał Rusinek. The author concludes that the Basilisk may be seen as a transfictional figure that transcends the boundaries of the original storyworld, which shows that — as many other legendary monsters — it should be seen not as a past phenomenon, but rather as something that still “lives” in culture and constantly evolves.

scholarly journals Voice and Silence in Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. BB102-BB118
Author(s):  
Helma Van Lierop-Debrauwer
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Voice And Silence

In 2014, the American writer Jacqueline Woodson published Brown Girl Dreaming, the story of her childhood in free verse, which was classified as young adult literature. Most US reviewers characterized and appreciated the book both as a human rights narrative of a young brown girl’s coming of age against the socio-political background of racism and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of the 1960s, and as a personal history of her development as a writer. In this article the major focus will be on how Brown Girl Dreaming as both a political memoir and an autobiographical narrative of identity formation is fleshed out. On the basis of my analysis of these two plot lines, I will further argue that its categorization as young adult literature disguises that the novel addresses a dual audience of adult and young readers. In my argumentation related to the political and personal character of the novel, as well as in my discussion of the crossover potential of Brown Girl Dreaming, I will focus on the presence of voice and silence.

scholarly journals The Practice of Ideological State Apparatuses in Lois Lowry’s The Giver

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Ari Setyorini ◽  
Serwana Idris
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Training System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Community Media ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Media Censorship ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This article attempts to portray how a contemporary young adult literature entitled The Giver (Lowry, 1993) illustrates the operation of state apparatus in a dystopian setting of time and place. Applying Althusser’s theory of state apparatuses, the study particularly focuses on a prominent issue of Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) which is operated within the The Giver’s society. Descriptive qualitative research is applied to interpret the data in the novel. The result of this study reveals that the novel draws ISA as a tool to control and to maintain the dominance in this dystopian community. The ISA operates through training system, particular rule of language used by the community, media censorship, and family’s role.

Morbidity in Young Adult Literature: A Case Study in the Outsiders

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Arvind Dahal
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Universal Nature

The inevitable and universal nature of death has made it a popular topic in Young Adult literature. While death recurs in these stories however, death in young adult novels is much darker and more complex. In this light, this paper discusses why is the issue of death in Young Adult fiction is still a safe place to discuss from the novel “The Outsiders”. It argues that the young adults find themselves in a state of morbid fear and realize that what for them is the site of joy and peace is a place of horror to the adults.

scholarly journals Journey from Trauma to Transcendence Through Art Therapy: The Study of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (I) ◽  
pp. 147-163
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Trauma Recovery ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Adolescence Period ◽  
Therapeutic Medium ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this research paper is to analyze the novel of American writer, Laurie Halse Anderson, entitled Speak, through the lens of art therapy to highlight that the journey from trauma to transcendence is possible through the therapeutic medium of art. This study examines all the traumatic encounters which the protagonist of Speak, Melinda Sordino, must face in her adolescence period and her constant struggle to cope with those experiences. The research substantiates that Anderson's novel frames speech and recovery from depression and traumatic stress possible through the artistic renderings. The theoretical framework of this paper is encapsulated in Shaun McNiff’s theory of art as medicine. The scopes of existing studies of Laurie Anderson’s Speak are limited to the exploration of the impact of traumatic encounters on the psychological and social growth of the young adult but this has not been clarified that how the protagonist overpowers the weaknesses and frailties of her mind through the healing properties of art. The decipherment of the element of art therapy in Speak fills the gap in research on trauma recovery through expressive art in Young Adult literature. Thus, the findings generated from this study might help future researchers in exploring various dimensions of Young Adult Literature to study the implications of trauma recovery through creative art therapy.

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN ADJEKTIVA EVALUATIF SEBAGAI CERMINAN SIKAP TOKOH DALAM KARYA SASTRA REMAJA PRADA AND PREJUDICE KARYA MANDY HUBBARD

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Ketut Mirahayuni ◽  
Susie Chrismalia Garnida
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Language Style ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Search For Self

Abstract. Studies on young adult literature has been flourised since late 20th century and early 21st century and have been interested in identifying defining characteristics of those literary works aimed for young or teen readers. Those studies have focused on the themes, conflicts and characters reflecting the interests of young readers in their search for self identity, adventures, dreams and life problems (Brown and Stephens, 1995; Tri Pramesti, 2016). Other studies examines the language features in young adult literature (Bushman and Haas, 2002; Tri Pramesti, 2015) and language style (Dwi Noverini Djenar, 2008). This article reports a study on the use of evaluative adjectives, a specific language aspect in young adult literature that seems to be employed by the author to express characters’ evaluation toward self and others. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics analysis of appraisal, particularly the aspects of affect whose realisations involves the use of evaluative adjectives expressing the senses of happiness, security and satisfaction (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014; Martin and White, 2005). The data were 388 lexical items collected from Mandy Hubbard’s Prada and Prejudice, focusing on the main character’s evaluation of herself and other characters in the novel. The result of the study shows that Prada and Prejudice employs a variety of evaluative adjectives expressing the main character’s evaluation that are related to the sense of happiness, security and satisfaction. This study contributes to better understanding some aspects of language style in literature aiming at young readerships. Keywords: young adult literature, evaluative adjectives, Prada and Prejudice

A STUDY OF THE ELEMENTS OF DEPRESSION IN “ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES” (2015)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaireen Zuleiqha Zainol Abidin ◽  
Mohd Syuhaidi Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Cognitive Distortions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mind Reading ◽  
Emotional Reasoning ◽  
Television Shows

The majority of research that exists on mental illness refers to the portrayals of adults with mental illness in films and television shows but limited research has been conducted on the portrayals of teenagers suffering from mental illness through a medium such as young adult literature. This study discussed and discovered the elements of depression behaviors depicted in the novel ―All the Bright Places‖ by Jennifer Niven (2015). The writers chose to study the two main characters, Theodore Finch and Violet Markey, and explored the elements of depression behaviors in the novel. Each text was descriptively examined using textual analysis and coded using a coding book. It was found that the novel depicts all elements of cognitive distortions in Beck's Cognitive Theory of Depression (All-Or-Nothing Thinking, Overgeneralization, Magnification and Minimizing, Personalizing, Mental Filter, Jumping to Conclusions, Labelling, Emotional Reasoning, Mind Reading; and Disqualifying the Positive). To conclude, Niven has addresses not only depression and also suicide with a seriousness and realism. A beautiful juxtaposition. Despite the ending, she leaves the reader with a sense of hope, that it will get better although never easier. Keywords: Young Adult Literature, Depression, All the Bright Places

scholarly journals Ungdomslitteratur former(er) sig

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (75) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayoe Quist Henkel
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Special Role ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Way

“Young Adult Literature in Transformation”Through a media attentive analysis of the novel Akavet by Ronnie Andersen (2014) and brief discussions of other popular novels for and about young adults, this article examines the way young adult literature develops in dialogue with digital and media-based impulses and the consequences this development may have for the predication of youth and the aesthetics and possible characteristics of young adult literature. The article is based on a materiality approach especially inspired by N. Katherine Hayles which has not previously been given attention in the reading of young adult literature or in discussions of possible characteristics of young adult literature. It also includes a discussion of and a variation of Hayles’ triad of form, content and medium, and it assigns a special role to the reader’s articulation inasmuch as Akavet entails a denaturalization of the reading process. From this basis it discusses the classic assumption that young adult literature is about young people’s development process from childhood to adulthood, outlining a passage characterized by linearity, maturity and growth. The article concludes that some young adult literature is realized on yet other premises and that Akavet can be seen as an exponent for a movement from young adult literature as stories of coming-of-age to stories of being-in-age. 

scholarly journals Peripheries of Girlhood; Erin Bow’s Plain Kate

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Szatanik
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Transformative Potential

The focus of this analysis is a representation of girlhood in Erin Bow’s 2010 novel Plain Kate. The novel has been categorized as “Young Adult Literature” which has come to indicate subversive and a transformative potential in that it often evokes traditional narrative models only to de- and re- construct them. The eponymous Plain Kate, therefore, is a prototypical Other: an ugly, orphaned and homeless girl who has to flee her hometown under the accusations of beinga witch. She is a transitional character and a boundary-crosser; as such she does not belong anywhere. Importantly, the story makes it clear that what transforms Kate into an outsider is, among other things, her gender, which is why the protagonist’s evolution from a child into an adult is shown through metaphors of the fluid female body. This paper aims to discuss the topography of girlhood on the example of Bow’s novel, focusing specifically on the questions of marginality, otherness, liminality, and transgression, inscribed in the category of Young Adult Literature.

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