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Journal articles on the topic "German Young Adult Fantasy Fiction"

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MacRae, Cathi Dunn. "Presenting Young Adult Fantasy Fiction." English Journal 88, no. 3 (January 1999): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/821601.

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Nelms, Beth, and Ben Nelms. "Young Adult Literature: The Farfaring Imagination: Recent Fantasy and Science Fiction." English Journal 74, no. 4 (April 1985): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/817316.

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Evans, Tania. "Full Moon Masculinities: Masculine Werewolves, Emotional Repression, and Violence in Young Adult Paranormal Romance Fiction." Gothic Studies 21, no. 1 (May 2019): 28–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2019.0005.

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Gothic monsters have recently experienced a period of focused scholarly analysis, although few studies have engaged with the werewolf in terms of its overt alignment with masculinity. Yet the werewolves of young adult fantasy fiction both support and subvert dominant masculine discourses through their complex negotiation with emotional repression and violence. These performative masculine practices are the focus of this article, which analyses how hegemonic masculine ideals are reinforced or rejected in a corpus of young adult fantasy texts, including Cassandra Clare's young adult series The Mortal Instruments (2007–2014) and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga (2005–2010). Both texts feature masculine characters whose lycanthropic experiences implicitly comment upon gender norms, which may shape young adult audiences' understanding of their own and others' gender identities.
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McLeod, Madison. "An Initial Foray into the Digital Mapping of London in Children's and Young Adult Literature." International Research in Children's Literature 14, no. 1 (February 2021): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0378.

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What kinds of urban places give rise to magic in children's and young adult fantasy literature? Thinking specifically of London, is it the ancient, twisty, almost secret backstreets that seem only visible to those in-the-know that convey magical possibilities waiting to be discovered? Or is it the eclectic mix of whimsical buildings with their beautiful spires and domes alongside dreary tower blocks and council estates that gives us the sense that anything can happen in the city – that anyone can live in and move through London, including wizards, waifs, princesses, and poltergeists? The original methodology described here consists of close reading over two hundred fantasy children's and YA novels set in London. I explain how, by combining Geographic Information Science (GIS), binary coding, literary mapping software, and children's literature scholarship, I have developed a system of annotation that allows me to digitally map the movements of the protagonists to answer questions about how place functions in fantasy fiction set in London and, by extension, cities more generally.
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Garcia, Antero. "Worlds of Inclusion: Challenging Reading, Writing, and Publishing Science Fiction- and Fantasy-Based Young Adult Literature." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 61, no. 2 (August 29, 2017): 221–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jaal.676.

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Doughty, Terri. "Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, „Yes to Solidarity, No to Oppression: Radical Fantasy Fiction and Its Young Readers”, Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego." Anglica Wratislaviensia 55 (October 18, 2017): 169–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0301-7966.55.12.

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This review assesses Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak’s Yes to Solidarity, No to Oppression: Radical Fantasy Fiction and Its Young Readers. Deszcz-Tryhubczak has two agendas in this volume: first, to explore the capacity of Radical Fantasy fiction to model for young readers the agency of youth forming collaborative, cross-generational, and possibly cross-cultural alliances to address glocal socio-political and/or environmental issues spawned by the injustices and inequities of late-stage capitalism; second, to model a new approach to participatory research, involving child readers not as subjects of study but as collaborative readers of texts. Deszcz-Tryhubczak provides a thorough examination of the problem of adult critics speculating about child readers based on constructed implied child readers rather than on actual children, then proceeds to identify how Childhood Studies may offer some productive means of thinking about and, more important, engaging with real children. She provides a clear definition of Radical Fantasy and brief readings of both core and marginal ex­amples of the genre. This contextualizes her description of her methodology and discussion of results from two research projects collaborating with young readers. Finally, Deszcz-Tryhubczak contends that participatory research is a way to move forward in children’s literature scholarship in a more democratic manner, and moreover that applying this methodology to Radical Fantasy is potentially also a means of engaging children in important debates on issues that are shaping their futures. I find this book a stimulating contribution to our understanding of youth reading that offers intriguing possibilities for further research.
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Walsh, Clare. "From `Capping' to Intercision: Metaphors/Metonyms of Mind Control in the Young Adult Fiction of John Christopher and Philip Pullman." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 12, no. 3 (August 2003): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09639470030123004.

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This article undertakes a comparative analysis of two trilogies written for a young adult readership: the Tripods trilogy by John Christopher (1967-8) and the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman (1995-2000). Both trilogies can be described as science fiction/fantasy Bildungsromans which centre on attempts by adults or surrogate adult figures to thwart the rite of passage from childhood to adulthood for their young protagonists. Contrary to what one might expect, the figurative language used in the texts which comprise the trilogies comes relatively high on Goatly's cline of 'metaphoricity' (Goatly, 1997: 11), partly because of the incorporation of an `open' address in Pullman's case and partly because of the wide-ranging intertextual allusions employed by both writers. In addition, I argue that in common with other dystopian architexts both trilogies exhibit a marked tendency to blur the boundaries between the metaphorical, the metonymic and the literal and, more specifically, that the `cognitive estrangement' intrinsic to the genre of sf leads readers to interpret metaphorically objects and processes that are literal in the world(s) of the text. Finally, I conclude with the view that both Christopher and Pullman offer empowering subject positions to their young protagonists and, by extension, to their young adult readers, with the clear aim of encouraging them to move beyond the circumscribed world of childhood inexperience.
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Soman, S., J. Parameshwaran, and J. KP. "Films and fiction leading to onset of psycho-phenomenology: Case reports from a tertiary mental health center, India." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S747. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1385.

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Mind is influenced by socio-cultural religious belief systems, experiences and attributions in the development of psychophenomenology. Film viewing is a common entertainment among young adults.ObjectivesInfluence of repetitive watching of films of fiction and horror genres on onset phenomenology in young adults.MethodTwo case reports on onset of psychotic features and mixed anxiety depressive phenomenology were seen in two patients aged 16 and 20 years respectively and based on the fantastic imagination created by films. The 28-year-old female patient diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder had onset at 16 years of age and the course of phenomenology was influenced by the fiction movie ‘Jumanji’ with partial response to medications over 10 years. The depressive and anxiety symptoms of less than 6 months duration of a 20-year-old male patient was influenced by film ‘Hannibal’ and responded to antidepressant and cognitive behavior therapy.ConclusionsHorror and fiction films can influence the thinking patterns and attribution styles of a young adult by stimulating fantasy thinking which if unrestrained can lead to phenomenology. Viewing films compulsively, obsessive ruminations on horror and fictional themes can lead to onset of psychopathology of both psychosis and neurotic spectrum. Further research on neurobiological, psychological correlates is needed. Parental guidance and restricted viewing of horror genre films with avoidance of repeated stimulatory viewing of same genre movies in children, adolescents, young adults and vulnerable individuals is required.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Васильєва М. В. "ІСТОРИЧНИЙ ФАКТ І ПОДІЯ В УКРАЇНСЬКІЙ ЛІТЕРАТУРІ ДЛЯ ДІТЕЙ ТА ЮНАЦТВА: ВІД ДАВНИНИ ДО СУЧАСНОСТІ." International Academy Journal Web of Scholar 2, no. 9(39) (September 30, 2019): 25–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_wos/30092019/6692.

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The article deals with Ukrainian literature for children and youth on a historical topic from the time of Kiev Rus to the present. Historical- adventure and historical-biographical works have been analyzed. An overview of the historical topic in literature for young readers in the works of writers of the Ukrainian diaspora is given. The main genre varieties of contemporary literature for children and youth of historical direction can be seen in the works of A. Bachinskyi, Ye. Bilousov, O. Havrosh, A. Kokotiukha, Zirka Menzatiuk, V. Rutkivskyi (e.g. biographical, adventure, detective, fantasy, fiction works). It is emphasized that works on historical themes often do not have a clear focus, they can be considered for a multi-age reader, both adult and child.
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Alkestrand, Malin, and Christopher Owen. "A Cognitive Analysis of Characters in Swedish and Anglophone Children's Fantasy Literature." International Research in Children's Literature 11, no. 1 (July 2018): 65–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2018.0254.

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In Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, Marek C. Oziewicz argues, ‘it is possible to study scripts through the lens of the author's cognition, through the reader's cognition, or as a textual matter with an implied author and reader’ (9–10). Here we propose a fourth method for studying scripts in children's literature: as a textual matter. Unlike previous research in the field, we argue that neither the implied author nor the implied or real reader's cognition is necessary for a cognitive analysis to offer insights about a literary text. A cognitive analysis of characters can demonstrate how each character's cognitive embodiment of their intersectional subject position contributes to the progression of a text's plot and themes.By analysing the mimetic, synthetic and thematic dimensions of character (Phelan), we maintain an ontological distinction between humans and characters – a prerequisite for applying cognitive theories to characters. In order to demonstrate the broad applicability of our approach, we analyse the cognitive scripts of the protagonists in two portal-quest fantasies from two different countries. Taliah Pollack's Saga Swärd: Omskakare och världsresenär [Saga Sword: world shaker and traveller] was published in Sweden in 2012; Tahereh Mafi's Furthermore dates from 2016 and was published in the US.
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Chen, Jou-An. "An exploration of nature and human development in young adult historical fantasy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282878.

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Traditional historical writing focuses on the cause and effect of human action, assuming that it is the historian's responsibility to recount the ebbs and flows of human progress. In the process of laying hold of the past as a narrative of human action, historical writing has developed the tendency to marginalise nature and undermine its power to influence the historical narrative. My investigation explores the fantastic in historical fantasy as a means of resisting historical writing's anthropocentrism. Historical fantasy uses fantastical elements to create counterfactual and alternative historical realities that have the potential to resist and undermine history's anthropocentric norm. My thesis examines four contemporary young adult historical fantasy trilogies that reimagine key turning points in history such as industrialisation, the American frontier, European imperialism, and World War I. They share the theme of retrieving and subverting anthropocentric discourses in the history of human development and thereby creating space for nature's presence and agency. My study finds that the fantastic is an effective means of subverting historical writing's anthropocentrism. But it also uncovers ambiguities and contradictions in historical fantasy's ecological revisionism, pointing to the idea that despite the fantastic's capacity for subversion, historical representations of nature cannot be separated from considerations of human identity and survival.
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Fenech, Giuliana. "Reconfiguring the reader : convergence and participation in modern young adult fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3681.

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This thesis explores digital-age literary and reading practices as they were influenced by participatory culture at the turn of the century. Participatory culture is analysed here through the work of Henry Jenkins, Hans Heino Ewers, Margaret Mackey and Katy Varnelis and is recognised as one in which individuals are socially connected to each other in an environment that offers support for creating and sharing interpretations and original works. It has relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic participation, and fosters the sense of community growing around people’s common interests and ideologies, as expressed through performative manifestations such as gaming and fandom. Because juvenile fantasy fiction generally, and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997-2007) specifically, were at the centre of significant developments in response to participatory culture, Rowling’s books are used as a case study on the basis of which changing practices of reading, writing and interpretation of story, principally by children and young people, are mapped and appraised. One aim of this thesis is to evaluate how far participatory culture has affected what it means to be a reader of a text that exists in multiple formats: how each version of the text constructs and addresses its readers/viewers/players/co-creators, and the dynamics and interdependence between the different versions. A second but related aim is to test the claims of new media theorists, including Janet Murray, Pierre Lévy and Marie-Laure Ryan, among others, to establish how far texts, readers and the processes of reading have in fact changed. Specifically, it looks at how far the promises of reader participation and co-creation have been fulfilled, especially within the genre of children’s literature.
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Melano, Anne. "On divergence in fantasy." Master's thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/17998.

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The original thesis contains the novel "Stranger, I" as an integral part of the thesis. However this novel has been omitted in this digital copy.
Thesis (MA (Hons))--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2006.
Bibliography: p. 93-97.
On divergence in fantasy -- Introduction -- Preliminary -- The thousand and one definitional nights -- Characteristic works: inclusions and exclusions -- Critical objections to fantasy -- Conclusion.
On Divergence in Fantasy explores the ways in which fantasy criticism continually redefines its boundaries, without arriving at agreement. The paper draws on Foucault to suggest that these disputes and dispersions are characteristic of the operation of fantasy critisim as a discursive formation.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Chen, Jou-An. "Airship, Automaton, and Alchemy: A Steampunk Exploration of Young Adult Science Fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7423.

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Steampunk first appeared in the 1980s as a subgenre of science fiction, featuring anachronistic technologies with a veneer of Victorian sensibilities. In recent years steampunk has re-emerged in young adult science fiction as a fresh and dynamic subgenre, which includes titles such as The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross, The Hunchback Assignment by Arthur Slade, and Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. Like their predecessors, these modern steampunk novels for teens use retrofuturistic historiography and innovative mechanical aesthetics to dramatize the volatile relationship between man and technology, only in these novels the narrative is intentionally set in the context of their teen protagonist's social and emotional development. However, didactic conventions such as technophobia and the formulaic linearity of the bildungsroman narrative complicate and frustrate steampunk's representation of adolescent formation. Using case studies of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia, retrofuturism and technological hybridity are presented as defining features of steampunk that subvert young adult science fiction's technophobic and liberal humanist traditions. The dirigible and the automaton are examined as the quintessential tropes of steampunk fiction that reproduce the necessary amphibious quality, invoking new expressions and understanding of adolescent growth and identity formation that have a distinctly utopian, nostalgic, and ecocentric undertone.
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Chappell, Shelley Bess. "Werewolves, wings, and other weird transformations fantastic metamorphosis in children's and young adult fantasy literature /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/226.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2007.
Bibliography: p. 239-289.
Introduction -- Fantastic metamorphosis as childhood 'otherness' -- The metamorphic growth of wings : deviant development and adolescent hybridity -- Tenors of maturation: developing powers and changing identities -- Changing representations of werewolves: ideologies of racial and ethnic otherness -- The desire for transcendence: jouissance in selkie narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: "The great Silkie of Sule Skerry": three versions.
My central thesis is that fantastic motifs work on a metaphorical level to encapsulate and express ideologies that have frequently been naturalised as 'truths'. I develop a theory of motif metaphors in order to examine the ideologies generated by the fantastic motif of metamorphosis in a range of contemporary children's and young adult fantasy texts. Although fantastic metamorphosis is an exceptionally prevalent and powerful motif in children's and young adult fantasy literature, symbolising important ideas about change and otherness in relation to childhood, adolescence, and maturation, and conveying important ideologies about the world in which we live, it has been little analysed in children's literature criticism. The detailed analyses of particular metamorphosis motif metaphors in this study expand and refine our academic understanding of the metamorphosis figure and consequently provide insight into the underlying principles and particular forms of a variety of significant ideologies.
By examining several principal metamorphosis motif metaphors I investigate how a number of specific cultural beliefs are constructed and represented in contemporary children's and young adult fantasy literature. I particularly focus upon metamorphosis as a metaphor for childhood otherness; adolescent hybridity and deviant development; maturation as a process of self-change and physical empowerment; racial and ethnic difference and otherness; and desire and jouissance. I apply a range of pertinent cultural theories to explore these motif metaphors fully, drawing on the interpretive frameworks most appropriate to the concepts under consideration. I thus employ general psychoanalytic theories of embodiment, development, language, subjectivity, projection, and abjection; poststructuralist, social constructionist, and sociological theories; and wide-ranging literary theories, philosophical theories, gender and feminist theories, race and ethnicity theories, developmental theories, and theories of fantasy and animality. The use of such theories allows for incisive explorations of the explicit and implicit ideologies metaphorically conveyed by the motif of metamorphosis in different fantasy texts.
In this study, I present a number of specific analyses that enhance our knowledge of the motif of fantastic metamorphosis and of significant cultural ideologies. In doing so, I provide a model for a new and precise approach to the analysis of fantasy literature.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Groves, Sarah R. "River City (A Novel)." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5408.

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This contemporary young adult fantasy novel aims to challenge genre conventions around gender, race, and sexuality by having the protagonists (an assortment of young queer people) fighting not against a physically present villain, but against the driving force of “story”, which aims to reduce them to archetypal roles in order to act out familiar scenes. The Story attempts to force each of the four protagonists into roles (hero, monster, princess, witch) for which they are in some way fundamentally unsuited, and which would ultimately destroy them if they succeeded in conforming. This novel aims to call into question the motivations of archetypes in stories, and asks readers to examine how those archetypes resemble stereotypes. In this way, it also asks writers and other artists to consider their complicity in hegemonic thought through the perpetuation of stereotypes and norms in their writing and art as easy stand-ins for more complicated truth.
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Crist-Wagner, Keri J. "Tales of the Jir The Education of Esa Drumm." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1334850004.

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Crowe, Elizabeth A. "The Wit and Wisdom in the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd846.pdf.

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Crawford, Karie. "Turbulent times : epic fantasy in adolescent literature /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2002. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd41.pdf.

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Kim, Chorong. "Storytelling tricksters: a reader’s coming-of-age in young adult fantasy fiction in Germany." Thesis, 2018. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9441.

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In this thesis, I examine three works of modern German fantasy fiction for young adults, their common grounding in the Romantic aesthetic framework and in particular the Romantic notion of creativity, and the implication of their unique fantasy fiction paradigm in our modern day. The novels are Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (1979), Inkheart (2003) by Cornelia Funke and The City of Dreaming Books (2006) by Walter Moers. They represent a Germany-specific narrative paradigm which can be seen in the protagonist readers’ transformation from mere readers into storymakers/storytellers, and in the conflict between a book-loving hero and antagonists who are against literature. The protagonists embody the Romantic notion of creativity that involves the sublimation of a poet’s crisis into an exploration of the self. The mundane is infused with fantasy, thereby elevating reality to an idealised state. These Romantic storytelling readers act as tricksters, a fairy tale archetype that shares similarities with the figure of the Romantic poet. I employ the theoretical frameworks of German Romanticism, Frankfurt School critical theory, and postmodern models, including those by Deleuze and Guattari. I argue for a modern version of the trickster archetype which explains how a complacent, passive reader becomes an active storyteller.
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Books on the topic "German Young Adult Fantasy Fiction"

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Phantastische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der 80er und 90er Jahre: Strukturen - Erklärungsstrategien - Funktionen. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2001.

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Presenting young adult fantasy fiction. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998.

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Murray, Michelle. The Dream Walker: Land of Mystica Series, Volume One. 4th ed. [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2014.

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Gool. North Shore, N.Z: Puffin Books, 2008.

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Gee, Maurice. Gool. North Shore, N.Z: Puffin Books, 2008.

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Wilce, Ysabeau S. Flora Segunda: Flora Trilogy #1. Orlando: Harcourt, 2006.

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Inc, OverDrive, ed. Cemetery Girl. [Place of publication not identified]: Cemetery Girl, 2012.

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Belle, Magnolia, ed. Alana Weatherbee (Book 1): Category: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy. Los Gatos: lulu.com, 2010.

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Enthoven, Sam. Crawlers. London: Corgi Books, 2010.

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Kiernan, Celine. Moorehawke trilogy: The poison throne. Dublin: O'Brien, 2008.

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Vinci, Tony M. "Posthumanist Magic." In Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction, 227–46. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816696.003.0011.

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Tony Vinci explains how Lev Grossman’s The Magicians suggests a new way of reading YA fantasy, not just as a privileged anthropocentric human reading escapist literature, reifying the boundary between reality and fantasy. Since the now-commodified set of expectations for fantasy to be unsettling are no longer as effective for readers, Grossman’s meta-fiction enables readers to view all realities as linguistic constructs. Thus when Quentin Coldwater and his magicians-in-training friends cross over into Narnia-like Fillory, they are encouraged to acknowledge the porous border between reality and fantasy, to recognize the “posthumanist ethics of vulnerability and radical openness to the Other, within and without.” But Quentin resists, even as a magical animal-human, clinging to traditional humanist values, and refuses to experience “becoming-with Otherness.”
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Tarr, Anita. "China Miéville’s Young Adult Novels." In Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction, 247–72. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496816696.003.0012.

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Noting the penchant for China Miéville’s writings to defy genre categorization, Anita Tarr labels his three YA novels as posthumanist assemblages, being posthumanist-Marxist-fantasy-Gothic horror-Young Adult novels. King Rat, Un Lun Dun, and Railsea are all re-envisionings of classic stories (“Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Through the Looking-Glass, and Moby Dick), sometimes to the detriment of Miéville’s superlative imaginative writing. Miéville is especially concerned with his protagonists resisting their conventional heroic destiny as they explore their posthumanist possibilities. Stock full of hybrid characters, each novel acknowledges fluid boundaries (fantasy and reality, animal and human) and multiple subjectivities; however, each is also burdened with heavy ties to anti-consumerist lessons.
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"Are We Posthuman Yet?: Fantasy and Speculative Fiction." In The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474205306.0017.

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