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Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, Third Edition
Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism, Third Edition | Michael Cart
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“Text and image, which can be enjoyed both visually and tactilely, offer an agreeable combination. But the most agreeable combination imaginable is that of young adults and young adult literature. When I wrote the first edition of this book in the 1990s, there was widespread doubt that one half of this equation- young adult literature- would survive but . . . not only has the genre survived; it has thrived!”

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“What else do we need? Surely we need more novels with same-sex parents and, finally, we need the genre [LGBTQIA+ YA] to continue to come of age as literature. And yet, if ours is not quite the wonderful world that a gay character in Boy Meets Boy sees when he looks around himself, we are getting there - and (pace, John Donovan) it will definitely be worth the trip!”

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“Who knows what tomorrow might bring? As for today, this surely remains one of the most exciting, dynamic periods in the whole history of young adult literature.”

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“This theme continues when she [Jacqueline Woodson] then speaks of the late Margaret A. Edwards‘s belief in literature and in teenagers and the power of their voices, ‘the importance of introducing them to people they might not otherwise have met and places they would never have seen‘ (Woodson, 2006, 68). Woodson might have been speaking here of her own writing which the Edwards committee described as ‘powerful, groundbreaking . . .‘”

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“Trends are transient and, doubtless, the novel in verse will pass in, out, and out of favor with writers and readers for years to come, but one thing seems certain: poetry itself will remain one of literature‘s most durable - and universal - forms, a lesson that was brought home when - in June 2015 - Juan Felipe Herrera became not only the first Mexican American United States Poet Laureate but also the first to have written for young readers...”

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“‘Really good fiction,‘ the novelist and critic John Gardner once wrote, ‘has a staying power that comes from its ability to jar, to turn on, to move the whole intellectual and emotional history of the reader‘ (Yardley 1994, 3). If young adult literature is to have a future, it must be more than a formula-driven fiction that begins and ends with a problem. It must be as real as headlines, but it must be more than the simple retailing of fact.” #YA

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“This kind of wretched excess suggested that the genre was not only overripe but also overdue for satire. The irrepressible Daniel M. Pinkwater took the cue and responded with his own Young Adult Novel (Crowell, 1982), a hilarious take-off on the problem novel. A nice coincidence is that Pinkwater‘s novel was published the same year as Bunn‘s book, sounding the death knell for the subgenre it represented.”

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