Young Adult and Canonical Literature - Pairing and Teaching

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

List of contents

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
451
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

About the author

Paula Greathouse, Ph.D., is a clinical assistant professor at the University of West Florida where she works in the doctoral program. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. Victor Malo-Juvera is Professor of English Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he teaches courses in writing for secondary teachers, young adult literature, and mythology. His research focuses on young adult literature and culturally responsive instruction. Nicholas Laudadio is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he teaches classes in science fiction, horror, popular culture, and literary and critical theory. His research explores the cultural history of music and musical instruments with a particular focus on electronic music and science fiction in the 20th century.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Paula Malo-Juvera Greathouse
• Assisted by: Paula Greathouse (Editor), Victor Malo-Juvera (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781475857160
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-5716-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Young Adult and Canonical Literature
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Religion, philosophy, psychology; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Secondary Schools, Teaching of a specific subject, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Religion / General, Religion & beliefs: general interest (Children's / Teenage), Educational: Art & design, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Arts, general, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Religion & beliefs, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, Educational: Humanities & social sciences, general