scholarly journals From Empathy to Ethical Reflection: Polish Children’s and Young Adult Literature (19th–21st Century) in a Cultural Animal Studies Perspective – Selected Problems

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-36
Author(s):  
Ewelina Rąbkowska
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The 19Th Century

The goal of this article is to analyse the changes in the depiction of animal themes in Polish children’s and young adult literature in the context of cultural animal studies (CAS). The focus is mainly on Polish prose created in the 21st century, but older texts, starting from the 19th century, are discussed with the use of animal studies tools too. The starting point of the article is the assumption that empathy towards animals, inscribed in the majority of works for children and young people, may become the basis for further ethical reflection. The author analyses texts at the centre of which are such aspects of the human-animal relation as hunting, animal treatment and protection (e.g., veterinary clinics, sanctuaries, reserves), using animals for work (mines, army), as well as ethical aspects related to meat-eating.

scholarly journals DIKOTOMI “DUNIA LAMA” DAN DUNIA MODERN” DALAM PANDANGAN TOKOH REMAJA DALAM NOVEL MANDY HUBBARD PRADA AND PREJUDICE

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Ketut Mirahayuni ◽  
Susie Chrismalia Garnida ◽  
Mateus Rudi Supsiadji
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
High School Student ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
New World ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
English Society

Abstract. This article deals with the characteristics of young adult literature and explores the dichotomy of two worlds in Mandy Hubbard’s Prada and Prejudice. The focus of analysis is the experience of Callie Montgomery during her school tour to London. She is an American senior high school student of the 21st century. She is popular as a bookworm and clumsy girl in her social relation with her mates of her age. Callie’s mysterious experience in which she enters an English society 200 years back after falling down when she was trying her new shoes of Prada’s brand for a recognition of her mates forced her to face a life of two different worlds separated by 200 years. The old world is represented by a society’s life in England in 1815. The new world is represented by the character’s introspection of the 21st life. The analysis discusses three aspects of the two worlds: physical, social, and spiritual world. There is also a discussion on the main character’s critical attitudes and her understanding on the differences of the two worlds, particularly on her own personality. Key words: young adult literature, personal identity, modern and old worlds

Young Adult Literature Research in the 21st Century

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Hayn ◽  
Jeffrey S. Kaplan ◽  
Amanda Nolen
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Literature Research

scholarly journals Humour in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: The Work of Gilles Bachelet

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Muela Bermejo
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Text And Image ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Construction Type

AbstractThe work of the French illustrator and writer Gilles Bachelet has been recognised through numerous awards, but he is not yet sufficiently well known in the critical community. In this article, the multilevel humour that constructs his work is studied, both from an iconic and a textual perspective, as well as the situational humour and the humour of characters that emerge through metafiction, self-referentiality and heteroreferentiality. For this purpose, the theories of humour in children’s literature and the classifications of types of humour offered by different researchers are used as a starting point, and a mixed model of analysis applicable to Bachelet’s work as a whole is proposed. In addition, the analysis of each of the picturebooks is based on the most recent studies on the components of the current picturebook, such as its narrative construction, type of reading, characteristics and organisation of text and image. In this way, the postmodern features of Gilles Bachelet's works, which make him a crossover author, are revealed.

Taboo Teens and Ancient Adults: Overpopulation Motifs in Fictional Literature for Children and Young People

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ford
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Human Fertility

Literature for children and young people is uniquely positioned in terms of intended readership and literary genres such as the young adult dystopian novel to scrutinise intergenerational and human fertility issues associated with overpopulation. However, fictional texts that explore overpopulation have a narrative form that is unstable and unreliable due to prevailing conventions of subjectivity and optimism in children's and young adult literature. Derrida's last interview, Learning to Live, is pertinent to an understanding of motifs of overpopulation in literature for children and young people. Derrida's recognition of the ‘rights’ of future and present generations, and of the temporal intergenerational problems between parent as child, and child as parent, are explored in recent fictional texts for children and young people.

scholarly journals An Attempt to Restore the Ordinary Death to the Visual Realm—Artistic, Therapeutic, and Ethical Aspects of the Post-Mortem Photography of Children in the 21st Century. Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-116
Author(s):  
Łucja Lange
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Grieving Process ◽  
The 19Th Century

Post-mortem photography was a transcendental element in the 19th century, which not only democratized portraiture, but also helped in the bereavement process. The comeback of post-mortem photography as a psychological tool helping parents of deceased children to cope with death was only a matter of time. The role and importance of memento-moris has to be taken into account in order to make significant changes in the grieving process, but all of the aspects of this kind of photography need to be considered. The artistic, therapeutic, and ethical dimensions of post-mortem photography in the 21st century has its rules, and those rules need to be followed. The article constitutes only a part of the research devoted to the bereavement process from a sociological perspective.

scholarly journals Layered Literacies: Booktubing: Reader Response Meets 21st Century Literacies

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Peggy Semingson ◽  
Raúl Alberto Mora ◽  
Tatiana Chiquito
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Reader Response ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Column Editor ◽  
The World ◽  
Mutual Interest

The theme of this issue of The ALAN Review is focused globally on the world of young adult literature. As with previous Layered Literacies columns, our aim is to share emerging and excit-ing ways that youth are meaningfully engaging with digital tools and young adult novels. In this column, two of us from Medellín, Colombia (Raúl and Ta-tiana) and one of us from Texas in the United States (Peggy, the Layered Literacies column editor) share our mutual interest in booktubing. We provide an overview of booktubing, describe the characteristics of this medium of video-based expression, illustrate several cases of booktubing in global contexts, and of-fer concrete ways in which educators, librarians, and youth themselves can get started with and engage in this practice.

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