Interpretive Play: Using Critical Perspectives to Teach Young Adult Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933760133 ISBN 13: 9781933760131

Publisher: Christopher-Gordon Publishers Inc, 2008

Synopsis

A useful tool for in-service and pre-service teachers, undergraduate or graduate classes, or teacher-educators who want fresh approaches to teaching and analyzing Young Adult Literature, this new book describes powerful, exciting practical applications of complex ideas with Post-Structuralist theoretical approaches to literature. These critical perspectives will help readers interpret literature, foster an understanding of some of the major theoretical issues in today s culture, and allow for an open dialogue in the classroom. The authors accurately adapt these dense critical perspectives and theories into readily available classroom strategies. Some of the most recurring critical perspectives for analyzing literature in the volume are: Louise Rosenblatt s Reader Response criticism, Feminist criticism, Deconstruction, Queer Theory, and analyses of Power. The authors wide range of texts includes graphic novels, hypertexts, and film adaptations as supplements for Young Adult novels. References are compiled at the end of each chapter so that extra materials can be sought easily. Examples of students work, classroom case studies as vignettes and discussion dialogue cues can be found throughout the volume. Provides activities which will be easy to incorporate into any Young Adult Literature classroom.

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About the Author

Faust has worked with companies such as P&G, IBM, Monsanto, Apple, Syngenta, Bayer, and John Deere, as well as smaller closely held organizations, second- and third-generation family-owned companies, government agencies, and nonprofits. He has been an adjunct COO, a vice president of sales, advisor on company boards and an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Christopher-Gordon Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933760133
• ISBN 13: 9781933760131
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Soter Anna O., Faust Mark, Rogers Theresa M.