Englishhttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/56062024-03-29T08:57:04Z2024-03-29T08:57:04ZSEEKING INFINITY: EXPLORING THE MEANING AND POTENTIAL OF YOUNG ADULT LITERATUREYanders, Jacintohttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/126182022-08-26T01:56:21Z2014-05-01T00:00:00ZSEEKING INFINITY: EXPLORING THE MEANING AND POTENTIAL OF YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Yanders, Jacinto
The category of Young Adult (YA) Literature has experienced tremendous growth in
terms of readership and works produced over the course of the last fifteen years or so. While
there has been some scholarly work done on the category, the research pales in comparison to
almost any other facet of literature. For whatever reasons, scholars have largely decided to ignore
the changes that have occurred in YA. However, that has not stopped readers from continuing to
read these books. In fact, this paper not only addresses the background and what I believe to be
the defining characteristics of YA, but also it speaks to who is reading YA, who is avoiding YA,
and the reasons behind deciding either way. Specifically, I use Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of
Being a Wallflower to not only illustrate particular incentives that lead people to reading YA, but
also to simply demonstrate the literary quality that does in fact reside within the YA category. It
is my belief that, just like any other category of literature, YA has numerous benefits that are
useful to readers and that, despite those benefits, the category gets an unfairly negative reputation
simply because it is associated with teenagers. By thoroughly examining these various aspects of
YA, I hope to show that the category is deserving of scholarly attention and that if people are
willing to give YA a chance, they just might end up finding some truly amazing books.
2014-05-01T00:00:00Z“All Things Forget The Forest:” The Convergence of the war and the Pastoral in Edward Thomas’s Body of WorkTrobaugh, Nicolehttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/54732021-06-02T10:13:22Z2014-03-20T18:26:46Z“All Things Forget The Forest:” The Convergence of the war and the Pastoral in Edward Thomas’s Body of Work
Trobaugh, Nicole
Edward Thomas, often identified as a war poet, eludes definitive characterization despite the fact that his poems are often anthologized as war poems. However, unlike other widely-known war poets, such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the imagery present in Thomas’s poetry contains much subtlety and features dominant usage of nature themes. This project attempts to navigate the multi-faceted world of Edward Thomas through consideration of his love for nature, his melancholic predispositions, and his preoccupations with the looming Great War in order to study Thomas’s use of natural imagery in the context of grief, melancholy, and traumatic experience. To give proper consideration to these various contexts, this projects uses Thomas’s poetic body of work and written letters as well as a few of Thomas’s prose pieces in order to provide extensive background to Thomas’s poetry. The trauma theories of Michelle Balaev and Cathy Caruth are given consideration, as well, in order to discuss the themes of trauma as they correspond to Thomas’s often haunted nature imagery.
2014-03-20T18:26:46ZA course of study in the contemporary novel planned for secondary schoolsAdamson, Margaret Janehttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/54502021-06-02T10:17:21Z2014-03-18T14:52:27ZA course of study in the contemporary novel planned for secondary schools
Adamson, Margaret Jane
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2014-03-18T14:52:27ZThe changing plans for the teaching of grammar and their relationships to the teaching of written compositionQuisenberry, James Donaldhttp://hdl.handle.net/10484/51062021-06-02T10:18:26Z2013-05-03T13:35:42ZThe changing plans for the teaching of grammar and their relationships to the teaching of written composition
Quisenberry, James Donald
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