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Young Adult and Canonical Literature - Pairing and Teaching

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This offers educators approaches for teaching young adult literature in tandem with the most commonly taught canonical texts.


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Victor Malo-Juvera and Paula Greathouse
CHAPTER 1
A Poet, a Girl, and Her Golem: The Journey from Innocence to Experience
Dawan Coombs and Rachel Knecht
CHAPTER 2
Remixing Pride and Prejudice for Gentrification Study and Writing Dialogue
Kristine Mensonides Gritter
CHAPTER 3
Monsters, Cyborgs, and Medical Ethics: Cinder and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Melanie Hundley and Sarah K. Burriss
CHAPTER 4
Young Adult Literature as Companion to Sex, Gender, and Consent in the Canon: Pairing Gabi,
a Girl in Pieces and The Scarlet Letter
Ruben Zecena and Ashley S. Boyd
CHAPTER 5
Beginnings, Transformations, and Connections: Teaching Gansworth's Apple alongside Kafka's
Metamorphosis
Ricki Ginsberg and Kit Magee
CHAPTER 6
Examining Prejudice and Intersectionality in Of Mice and Men and We Were Here
Ellen Foley
CHAPTER 7
Disrupting the Canon with Dystopia: Neal Shusterman's Scythe and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit
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Sarah Flemming and Keith Newvine
CHAPTER 8
Saints, Angels, Butterflies, and Owls: Magical Realism Beckons
Sharon Kane
CHAPTER 9
Trauma in the Beauty Ideal in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and An Na's The Fold
Sarah Donovan
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF CANONICAL AND YA TEXTS
SUBJECT INDEX


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Edited by Paula Greathouse and Victor Malo-Juvera

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This offers educators approaches for teaching young adult literature in tandem with the most commonly taught canonical texts.

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