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Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games / by M. Mackey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackey, Margaret.
- Series:
- Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, 2753-0833
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Communication.
- Children's literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Children's Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Children's Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.
- Contents:
- Asking the questions: how we understand stories
- Beginning: designing the project
- Thinking it through: theoretical frameworks
- Paying attention: provisional observations and inferences
- Entering the fiction: the subjunctive and the deictic centre
- Orienting: finding the way forward
- Filling gaps: inferences, closure, and affect linking
- Making progress or making do: the unconsidered middle
- Concluding: reaching provisional and final judgments
- Inhabiting the story: comparative perspectives
- Understanding narrative interpretation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613210210
- 9781283210218
- 1283210215
- 9780230308329
- 0230308325
- 9780230316621
- 023031662X
- OCLC:
- 743800612
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