EDU4FYA:Fic,onforYoungAdults2012:WeeklyProgramwithReferencesandReadings

Thelecture/tutorialprogram,weeklytopicfocus,andsetreadingsareasfollows:

WEEK1(beginningJuly23):WhatisAdolescence?WhatisYoungAdultLiterature?
Courseoverview
Theoriesaroundthede<initionofadolescence
AssumptionsaboutYoungAdultreaders
ConsequentassumptionsaboutYoungAdultLiterature
Keytexts:
Selectionstobepresentedinclass
Analyticalreadings:
Saxby,M.(1997).Literatureforyoungadults.inBooksintheLifeofaChild:bridgesto
literatureandlearning.SouthYarra,VIC:Macmillan.pp.352373.
Tucker,N.(1981).Literatureforolderchildren(ages1114).inTheChildandtheBook:a
psychologicalandliteraryexploration.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.chap.6,pp.
144189.
Bahr,Nan(2005)Themiddleyearslearner.InPendergast,D.andBahr,N.(Eds.),Teaching
middleyears.AllenandUnwin;Australia.:4864.
(availableereserveforEDU4EGA)
AustralianCentreforYouthLiterature(2000)YoungAustraliansReading.Melbourne:SLV.
Available:http://www2.slv.vic.gov.au/pdfs/aboutus/publications/yar_report.pdf
Voskuyl,H.(2007)YoungAdultFiction:partofadifferentiatedcurriculum?Access.21(2),pp.
58.

WEEK2(July30):ProblemStories:theturmoiloftheteenager
LiteratureforEducationorEntertainment
Intendedaudience,censorship,factand<iction,representationandbias
Bibliotherapyandvicariousreading
Creationoftherealin<iction
Keytext:
TheMidnightZoo SonyaHartnett
Supplementarytexts:
RoseBlanche RobertInnocenti
WoolvsintheSitee MargaretWild
Analyticalreadings:
Egoff,SheilaA.(1980)TheProblemNovel.InSheliaEgoff(ed.)OnlyConnect:Readingson
Children'sLiterature.2nded.Toronto:NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.(pp.356369).

Harvey,P.(2010)Bibliotherapyusebywelfareteamsinsecondarycolleges.TheAustralian
JournalofTeacherEducation.35(5).pp.2939

Pattee,A.(2004)DisturbingthePeace:TheFunctionofYoungAdultLiteratureandtheCase
ofCatherineAtkinsWhenJeffComesHome,ChildrensLiteratureinEducation.35(3).pp.
241255.
WEEK3(August6):Meandmyidentity
Seekinganddeterminingself
Vicariousreadings
Thecreationofreaderresponse:Author,readerandsocietyascreators
Keytexts:
LookingforAlibrandi MelinaMarchetta
Analyticalreadings:
Beere,D.(1994).LookingatmotherhoodinLookingforAlibrandi.EnglishinAustralia.
no.110:pp.5362.

McInally,K.(2007).Notquitewhite(enough):Intersectingethnicandgenderedidentitiesin
LookingforAlibrandi.Papers:explorationsintochildrensLiterature.17(2).pp.5966.

WEEK4(August13):Meinmyworld
Socialawarenessandtheproblemsoftheworld
Sympathy,empathyandreadingforunderstanding
Intertextuality,personalreferencingandmultiple/crossgenres
Adaptationoftextsto<ilm
Keytext:
Deadly,Unna? PhillipGwynne
Supplementarytext:
AustralianRules[movie] dir.PaulGoldman
Analyticalreadings:
Daly,A.(2003)TherulesofbeingAustralian.SensesofCinema.[online].
Available:
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/25/australian_rules.html

NFSA(2008)AustralianRules.AustralianScreen.[online].
Available:
http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/australianrules/notes/

Groenke,S.,Henderson,J.andMaples,J.(2010).Raising"HotTopics"throughYoungAdult
literature.VoicesfromtheMiddle.17(4),pp.2936

Northover,K.(2012,June30)Fantasyspursteensintosocialactivism.TheAge[Melbourne].
p.20.Available:http://www.theage.com.au/national/fantasyspursteensintosocial
activism20120629217vo.html

Wolk,S.(2009).Readingforabetterworld:teachingforsocialresponsibilitywithYoung
Adultliterature.JournalofAdolescentandAdultLiteracy.52(8).pp.664673.

WEEK5(August20):Whatitistobeyoungandinlove
Depictionsofromanceandsexuality
Socialconventionsandstereotypes
Formulasinstorytelling
Keytext:
PrideandPrejudice JaneAusten
Twilight StephenieMeyer
Analyticalreadings:
Silver,A.(2010).Twilightisnotgoodformaidens:gender,sexuality,andthefamilyin
StephenieMeyersTwilightseries.StudiesintheNovel.42(1&2).pp.121138.

Backstein,K.(2009).(Un)safeSex:RomancingtheVampire.Cineaste,3841.

Green<ield,S.C.(2006).TheAbsentmindedHeroineor,ElizabethBennetthasathought.
EighteenthcenturyStudies.39(3):pp.337350.

Jones,L.(2011).ContemporaryBildungsromanandtheProsumerGril.Criticism.53(3):pp.
439469.

Lee,L.J.(2008).GuiltyPleasures:ReadingRomanceNovelsasReworkedFairyTales.Marvels
&Tales:JournalofFairyTaleStudies,22(1),5266.

Mercer,J.A.(2011).Vampires,Desire,GirlsandGod:TwilightandtheSpiritualitiesof
AdolescentGirls.PastoralPsychol,60,16.

WEEK6(August27):BoysandGirls
Genderedreading(ornotreading)
Chick<licksandactionmen
Alternativestosocialnorms
Theoreticalframeworksforcritiquinggenderrepresentations
Keytext:
TheDivineWind GaryDisher
Analyticalreadings:
Broughton,M.andManuel,J.(2007).WhatdoAustralianboysthinkaboutreading?Literacy
Learning:themiddleyears.15(1).pp.916

Crisp,T.(2009).FromRomancetoMagicRealism:limitsandpossibilitiesingayadolescent
<iction.ChildrensLiteratureinEducation.40(4).pp.333348.

Younger,B.(199910.Pleasure,painandthepowerofbeingthin:femalesexualityinYoung
Adultliterature.NWSAJournal.15(2).pp.4556.

WEEK7(September3):Meinanotherworld
Thepopularityoffantasy
Textand<ilmadaptationacrossmodes
Evaluationofappropriatenessandaudience
Keytext:
TheHungerGames SuzanneCollins
Analyticalreadings:
Bradford,C.,Mallan,K.,Stephens,J.andMcCallum,R.(2008)ChildrensTexts,NewWorld
OrdersandTransformativePossibilities(chap.2)inNewWorldOrdersinContemporary
Children'sLiterature:UtopianTransformations.NewYork:PalgraveMacmillan,2008.

Hintz,C.(2002).MonicaHughes,LoisLowryandYoungAdultDystopias.TheLionandthe
Unicorn.26(2).pp.254264
WEEK8(September10):Changingformsofstorytelling
Genres,stylesandforms
Multimedia,mixedmedia,movies,games
Keytext:
Jinx MargaretWild
Analyticalreadings:
Alexander,J.(2005).TheVerseNovel:anewgenre.ChildrensLiteratureinEducation.36(3).
pp.269283.

Campbell,P.(2004)Vettingtheversenovel.TheHornBookMagazine.80(5).September/
October.pp.611616

VanSickle,V.(2006)SubcategoriesWithintheEmergingGenreoftheVerseNovel.The
LookingGlass:newperspectivesonchildrensliterature.10(3).September.

Carter,J.B.(2011)GraphicNovels,WebComicsandCreatorBlogs:examiningproductand
process.TheoryintoPractice.50(3).pp.190197

WEEK9(September17):Icanmakeupmyownmind
Literaryanalysis:thecritic,thefanandtheriseofreaderreviewers
Commentaryinthepublicarena:journals,blogs,circlesandclubs
Censorshipandthemarket
Keytext:
Tobedistributedinlecturesandtutorials
Analyticalreadings:
Thomas,A.(2007).Blurringandbreakingtheboundariesofnarrative,literacyandidentityin
adolescentfan<iction.InM.KnobelandC.Lankmear(eds.)ANewLiteraciesSampler.New
York:PeterLang.pp.137165

Hunt,C.(1996).YoungAdultLiteratureevadesthetheorists.ChildrensLiteratureAssociation
Quarterly.21(1).pp.411.ReprintedinA.SchwenkeWylieandT.Rosenberg(eds.)
ConsideringChildrensLiterature:areader(2008)Buffalo,NY:BroadviewPress.

WEEK10(October1):Conclusions/Revision
Reiterationofmainthemes:
De<iningtheYoungAdultreader
De<iningYoungAdultLiterature
Problemsandissuesthesocialisingimperative
Identityandsexuality
Multimediaanddevelopingforms
Criticalanalysisandtheoreticalframeworks