Read Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

Sara K. Day

4.9/5 (9546 ratings)

Description:By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen ("Someone Like You"), Stephenie Meyer (the "Twilight" series), and Laurie Halse Anderson ("Speak"), "Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature" explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent women. Sara K. Day explains, though, that such levels of imagined friendship lead to contradictory cultural expectations for the young women so deeply obsessed with reading these novels. Day coins the term "narrative intimacy" to refer to the implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends on an imaginary disclosure and trust between the story's narrator and the reader. Through critical examination, the inherent contradictions between this enclosed, imagined relationship and the real expectations for adolescent women's relations prove to be problematic. In many novels for young women, adolescent female narrators construct conceptions of the adolescent woman reader, constructions that allow the narrator to understand the reader as a confidant, a safe and appropriate location for disclosure. At the same time, such novels offer frequent warnings against the sort of unfettered confession the narrators perform. Friendships are marked as potential sites of betrayal and rejection. Romantic relationships are presented as inherently threatening to physical and emotional health. And so, the narrator turns to the reader for an ally who cannot judge. The reader, in turn, may come to depend upon narrative intimacy in order to vicariously explore her own understanding of human expression and bonds.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature. To get started finding Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1496800354

Description: By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen ("Someone Like You"), Stephenie Meyer (the "Twilight" series), and Laurie Halse Anderson ("Speak"), "Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature" explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent women. Sara K. Day explains, though, that such levels of imagined friendship lead to contradictory cultural expectations for the young women so deeply obsessed with reading these novels. Day coins the term "narrative intimacy" to refer to the implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends on an imaginary disclosure and trust between the story's narrator and the reader. Through critical examination, the inherent contradictions between this enclosed, imagined relationship and the real expectations for adolescent women's relations prove to be problematic. In many novels for young women, adolescent female narrators construct conceptions of the adolescent woman reader, constructions that allow the narrator to understand the reader as a confidant, a safe and appropriate location for disclosure. At the same time, such novels offer frequent warnings against the sort of unfettered confession the narrators perform. Friendships are marked as potential sites of betrayal and rejection. Romantic relationships are presented as inherently threatening to physical and emotional health. And so, the narrator turns to the reader for an ally who cannot judge. The reader, in turn, may come to depend upon narrative intimacy in order to vicariously explore her own understanding of human expression and bonds.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature. To get started finding Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

More Books

Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)

Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)

Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature (Children's Literature Association Series) by Sara K. Day (2015-09-08)

Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature (Children's Literature Association Series) by Sara K. Day (2015-09-08)

[(Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature)] [Author: Sara K Day] published on (June, 2013)

[(Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature)] [Author: Sara K Day] published on (June, 2013)

A Little Daylight Left: Poems

A Little Daylight Left: Poems

Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl

Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl

Sunny with a Chance of Monsters (Sunny Day, Paranormal Badass)

Sunny with a Chance of Monsters (Sunny Day, Paranormal Badass)

Moon Florida Road Trip: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, Walt Disney World, Tampa, Sarasota, Naples, the Everglades & the Keys (Moon Handbooks)

Moon Florida Road Trip: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, Walt Disney World, Tampa, Sarasota, Naples, the Everglades & the Keys (Moon Handbooks)

Girl Taking Over: A Lois Lane Story FCBD Special Edition #1: 2023 (Free Comic Book Day)

Girl Taking Over: A Lois Lane Story FCBD Special Edition #1: 2023 (Free Comic Book Day)

Keto Diet for Beginners: The Keto Diet Cookbook with Quick and Healthy Recipes incl. 30 Days Weight Loss Plan

Keto Diet for Beginners: The Keto Diet Cookbook with Quick and Healthy Recipes incl. 30 Days Weight Loss Plan