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Brodie, Jessica J. "Children in science fiction utopias: feminism's blueprint for change." FIU Digital Commons, 1999. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2425.

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The purpose of this thesis was to examine the treatment and portrayal of children in science fiction utopian literature and determine whether this effectively indicated the writers’ feminist visions for social change. A feminist theoretical perspective and critical interpretation of several of the genre’s canon, Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country, Suzy McKee Chamas’s Motherlines, Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground, Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series, were used as research methodologies. The findings revealed that children communicate feminis

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Dinatale, Leah Flynn Richard. "Cultural power and utopianism in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed." Diss., Statesboro, Ga.: Georgia Southern University, 2009. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/fall2009/leah_c_dinatale/DiNatale_Leah_C_200908_MA.pdf.

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"A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts." Title from PDF of title page (Georgia Southern University, viewed on May 1, 2010). Richard Flynn, major professor; Caren Town, Joe Pellegrino, committee members. Electronic version approved: December 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-66).

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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

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Verbruggen, Frances Augusta Ramos. "Representations of Immigrants in Young Adult Literature." Thesis, Portland State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10979318.

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<p> This study was conducted to determine how immigrants and the immigration experience are represented in current young adult (YA) literature. In the study, I asked the following questions: Who are the immigrant characters in recent YA books? Why do they come? How do they experience immigration? How are they perceived or treated by others? A content analysis methodology was used to examine, from a critical literacy viewpoint, recent young adult novels with immigration themes. Data were analyzed by identifying and interpreting patterns in themes across 22 YA novels with immigrant protagonists

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Appalachian Children’s Literature as Multicultural Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2394.

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Smith, Jennifer. "The information behaviour of authors of children's and young adult literature." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/9b8f1496-436b-4791-a0a5-2241c2dea250.

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The study explored the information behaviour of authors of children's and young adult literature in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition, it sought to determine whether personality and cognitive styles had any influence on this behaviour. The contribution of this study to the research base is due to the focus on a group of creative professionals that has received little attention in the information seeking field and has so far been under-researched. The study followed a concurrent embedded qualitative dominant mixed methods research design. Instruments included in-depth,

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Kiser, Kelsey R. "Young Adult Literature and Empathy in Appalachian Adolescents." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3325.

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Based on recent research concluding that fiction can increase empathy, this project examines how multicultural young adult literature may encourage empathy in Appalachian adolescents. Empathy encourages prosocial behaviors, but evidence suggests that young adults’ ability to empathize has declined in recent decades. In addition, Appalachia in particular is still a relatively homogenous region as it is majority white, protestant Christian, and heteronormative. Because of this, young adults in Appalachia may encounter few diverse perspectives in real life; multicultural young adult literature ca

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Hodge, Diana Victoria, and dhodge@utas edu au. "Victorianisms in twentieth century young adult fiction." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2006. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060525.151043.

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Abstract: This thesis investigates the origins of contemporary fictional constructions of childhood by examining the extent to which current literary representations of children and childhood have departed from their Victorian origins. I set out to test my intuition that many contemporary young adult novels perpetuate Victorian ideals and values in their constructions of childhood, despite the overt circumstantial modernity of the childhoods they represent. The question this thesis hopes to answer therefore is, how Victorian is contemporary young adult fiction? To gauge the degree of change

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Benton, Terry. "The Availability and Accessibility of Award-Winning Multicultural Children's and Young Adult Literature in Public Libraries in Northeast Ohio." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1418075719.

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Eveleth, Kyle W. "Outsiders to Whom? Reimagining the Creation of Young Adult Literature in the United States." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/103.

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The study of young adult literature has become widespread within Children’s and Young Adult Literature specifically and literary studies as a whole. However, the term “young adult” which defines and focalizes both the literature itself and the ostensible readers for whom it is produced remains a poorly-examined area. The present study examines the creation of one branch of what we now call “young adult literature” from its roots in the United States in the early twentieth century to its emergence as a dominant literary form in the mid-to-late 1960s. In doing so, it seeks to reconcile emerging

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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.<br>Bibliography: p. 239-289.<br>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.<br>My central thesis

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Liu, Yi-chen Mathis Janelle Brown. "Identity issues in Asian-American children's and adolescent literature (1999-2007)." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12155.

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Miskin, Kristana. "A Transnational Study: Young Adult Literature Exchanged Between the US and Germany." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1612.

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Both young adult literature and transnational literature occupy transitional spaces and defy simple classifications. Their commonalities naturally suit the two sets of literature for concurrent study. However, the field is underdeveloped, particularly in the United States. With a concentration on the exchanges taking place between the U.S. and Germany, this thesis addresses the need to assemble primary materials and pertinent critical commentary into a single place available to educators, scholars, and researchers to acquire background on transnational YAL themes. The thesis delineates methods

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Mawhinney, Sarah. "“The Fight Starts Here:” Appalachian Mountaintop Removal in Three Contemporary Young Adult Novels." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/484.

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Mountaintop removal is an issue that has plagued Appalachia as companies harvest coal from the mountains and cause consequent environmental and community effects. By focusing on three contemporary young adult novels that feature mountaintop removal, correlations between the novels and the real environmental and community effects can be drawn. The novels examined include: Saving Wonder by Mary Knight (2016), Dig Too Deep by Amy Allgeyer (2016), and The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton (2015). Mountaintop removal is a devastating and invasive process, and the costs on the land a

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Lyons, Renee Critcher. "Let’s Go Down to the Holy Well: Children’s Literature for Sustainable Living." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3206.

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Children’s literature might be considered the “holy well” providing healing refreshment and a direct path forward for the soul of every child: a troubled youngster, a young person experiencing a life trial, or a student seeking enlightenment. Whether folklore depicting animals congregating at the water hole at their time of need, learning to share and care; or realistic fiction presenting varying “time of drought” scenarios, and the resolution or healing necessary thereto; or even non-fiction revealing humanity’s dependence on clean water, and the knowledge necessary to help budding scientists

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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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Marroquin, Melissa. "The New Dystopian Trend: Neoliberalism and the YA text." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1624.

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Since the success of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the young adult text has functioned as a potential gold mine both in publishing and in commercial film. Within the YA realm, a trend has surfaced which features a formulaic narrative located within a dystopian society. This research closely analyzes two popular works of the YA dystopian boom, The Hunger Games and the Divergent series, in order to outline the vast appeal of such a trend. Once examined, it becomes evident that the trend is one consistently tied to neoliberal ideals of individual achievement. Using neoliberalism as a lens o

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Watkins, Tamara. "(Re)Mediating the Spirit: Evangelical Christian Young Adult Media." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4796.

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"We are in the world, but not of the world," a maxim frequently spoken in evangelical Christian culture, provides insight into how these individuals view their relationship with secular culture. They presume to share the same temporal plane with secular culture, but do not participate in it. In this dissertation, I explore whether the division between evangelical Christian culture and secular culture is as clear as this aphorism implies. To facilitate this investigation, I examine media Christian content creators created for an American evangelical Christian young adult audience in the early t

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McGee, Chris Susina Jan. "The mysterious childhood from the Hardy boys to Harry Potter /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3128282.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed Oct. 15, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Jan Susina (chair), Christopher Breu, Sally E. Parry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-181) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Marchant, Jennifer Esther Robertson Susina Jan. "Beauty and the beast the relationships between female protagonists and animals in children's and adolescent novels written by women /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3106758.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2003.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed October 17, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Jan C. Susina (chair), C. Anita Tarr, Cynthia A. Huff. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-184) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Davis, Megan S. "A R(EVOLUTION) OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: YOUNG-ADULT DYSTOPIAN FICTION AS A VEHICLE FOR ECOCRITICAL AWARENESS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/787.

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Prominent within various scientific journals, news media outlets, and online publications are conversations surrounding what is dubbed “climate anxiety.” This wide-stemmed social unrest is caused, in large part, by the unrelenting, consistent data from the scientific community reporting rising sea levels, species extinction, and “record-breaking” heatwaves as well as an increasing average of global temperatures, that seem to top the next every year for the past decade. However, an underlying thread to these reports remains largely consistent. Unless serious regard is given to our natural surro

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Lyons, Reneé C. "The Poem in the Mirror: Evaluating Multicultural Children’s Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2395.

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Austin, Norjuan Q. Coats Karen. "Getting out of childhood alive Lacan and the marked babies /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3106756.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2003.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed October 17, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Karen S. Coats (chair), Anita C. Tarr, Janice Neuleib. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-151) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Brandt, Kristen Clark. "Cultural and Narrative Shifts of Nineteenth Century Children's Literature in Hawthorne's Wonder Book for Girls and Boys." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3083.

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Both folklorists and literary critics have been drawn to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s body of work because of his distinctive style and incorporation of folk motifs. Such motif-spotting presents no challenge in Hawthorne’s juvenile literature like his retellings from Greek mythology in Wonder Book for Girls and Boys; however, contemporary folklore redirects the focus of this scholarship to “how particular literary uses of folklore fit into a larger, more fundamental concept of what folklore is and how and what folklore communicates” (de Caro & Jordan 2015:15). Hawthorne’s work interacts with other fo

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Chew, Laureen. "Chinese American images in selected children's fiction for kindergarten through sixth grade." Scholarly Commons, 1986. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2131.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate Chinese American images in selected children's fiction to determine whether or not data support the position of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, that the works of fiction studied tend to stereotype Chinese Americans. After reading the selected fifteen works of fiction, a criterion checklist was devised by the investigator to examine the behavior and lifestyle of Chinese Americans depicted in a variety of circumstances. validity of the criterion checklist was established by a panel of experts in the area of Chinese American studies. Inte

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Stories from the Bamboo Groves: Vietnam in Children’s Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2379.

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Ross-Stroud, Catherine Trites Roberta Seelinger. "Non-existent existences race, class, gender, and age in adolescent fiction; or Those whispering Black girls /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3106763.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2003.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed October 12, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Roberta Seelinger Trites (chair), Karen Coats, Janice Neuleib. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-236) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Milner, Emily J. "When in Doubt: An Exploration of the Role of the Oracle in the Harry Potter Series." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/344.

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The popular Harry Potter series serves as the basis for my study of the oracles that appear throughout the series. By focusing specifically on Professor Sybill Trelawney, Ron Weasley, and the Sorting Hat, I show the relationships between Harry Potter and the Oracles. I also focus on a few of Trelawney's various methods of Divination and her prophecies.

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Rostedt, Erica. "The Tween Ghost Story: Articulating the Tween Experience." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1665.

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In the early 1980s, a particular kind of “tween” (children aged 10-14) ghost story emerged. Through examining multiple examples of tween ghost stories (such as Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, Stonewords by Pam Conrad, and Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss), this paper illustrates the ways in which these stories are remarkably consistent in nature, and then investigates this sub-genre’s specific and consistent articulation of the struggle of moving away from childhood and into the teenage years. By using a ghost to create a situation so off balance (a ghost who is stuck, a protagonist w

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Davis, Roy C. "The Ghost of Carver Ranch." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154312646.

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Castleman, Michele Daniele. "Meeting Gods: The re-presentation and inclusion of figures of myth in early twenty-first century young adult and middle grade children’s novels." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306352172.

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Pratt, Scott. "An Elephant's Standing in There." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://www.amzn.com/0692218890/.

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Allow me to introduce you to AN ELEPHANT'S STANDING IN THERE, a whimsical story about an elephant standing in a little boy's bedroom that I wrote for my children many years ago. Though my kids have grown up themselves, I've held on to this tale because of the wonderful memories my family and I shared while reading it together. After stumbling back onto the story roughly a year ago while going through some old things, an idea popped into my head. My daughter, a lovely young lady named Kody, had heard this story many times when she was a young girl. She had also developed an exceptional talent f

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Lyons, Reneé C., and Deborah Parrott. "Connecting to the World with Batchelder Books and International Literature – Concurrent Session." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2384.

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Liu, Yi-chen. "Identity Issues in Asian-American Children's and Adolescent Literature (1999-2007)." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12155/.

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Published research suggests that literature should transmit ethnic and societal values as well as reassure one's own confidence and self-respect. This study provides a model for examining Asian-American children's and adolescent literature critically from the perspective of identity issues. It examines fifteen award-winning Asian-American children's and adolescent titles written by writers of that culture and published in the United States from 1999 to 2007, with a focus on Chinese (Taiwanese) American, Korean American, and Japanese American books. As published studies indicate, self, social,

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Saunders, Sean. "Crossing out: transgender (in)visibility in twentieth-century culture." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/244.

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Spanning the period from the early years of the Cold War to the early twenty-first century, Crossing Out argues that medical theories of gender variance which emerge in the middle of the twentieth century are bound by the Cold-War–era discursive limits within which they were articulated, and that the ideological content of those theories persists into late-century research and treatment protocols. I parallel these analyses with interrogations of literary representations of transgendered subjects. What emerges most powerfully from this analysis of literary works is their tendency to signify in

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Renner, Jasmine R. "You Must Climb the Tree If You Want to Eat The Fruits." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. http://amzn.com/1500426091.

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"You Must Climb The Tree If You Want to Eat The Fruits" will teach your child or children the invaluable lesson of hard work and persistence. It teaches children about the invaluable lesson of hard work and persistence in order to partake of good things. In this story, Roland sets out to climb an age old tree called "Vine Grove." Vine Grove was full of juicy, tempting and ripe fruits. Day after day, Roland sat under the tree and dreamt about eating the fruits. He thought it was impossible to climb the tree because it was a very big tree. Twice he attempted to climb the tree but he fell down an

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Godinho, Sally. "The portrayal of gender in the Children's Book Council of Australia honour and award books, 1981-1993." Connect to this title online, 1996. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000337/.

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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 hist

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Svensson, Anne. "Soaring over the dividing wall." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385489.

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Clark, Amy Ruth Wilson. "Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels: Contemporary subversive tales." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2986.

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Drawing especially on Donna Haraway's notion of the cyborg, this thesis argues that Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels, through their depiction of the cyborg and their use of metafiction, intertextuality, and irony, subvert binaries and hierarchies that cause social injustice. Chapter one argues that Colfer's characters disrupt the oppressive binary opposition between innocence and experience that characterizes children's literature. Chapter two argues that Colfer's fairy hierarchy satirizes the human hierarchy. Chapter three argues that Colfer's cyborg, by disrupting the boundary between machi

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Castleman, Samantha G. "Inexhaustible Magic: Folklore as World Building in Harry Potter." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1973.

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The practice of secondary world building, the creation of a fantasy realm with its own unique laws and systems has long been a tradition within the genre of fantasy writing. In many notable cases, such as those publications by J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft, folklore exhibited in the world of the reader has been specifically used not only to construct these fantasy realms, but to add depth and believability to their presentation. The universe of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series demonstrates this same practice of folklore-as-world-building, yet her construction does much more than just cre

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Segal, Emily J. "Making Nobody Matter: Performance and Vision in Frances Burney's Evelina (1778) and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games (2008)." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1861.

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The development of the novel cannot be separated from discussions about literary history, gender relations, performance, and the power literature has to instruct its audience. Women and young people have always comprised a substantial part of the novel’s readership, and this makes them powerful. The history of the novel is the history of dangerous literature; it is the history of works that have enchanted readers with “the power of example,” as Samuel Johnson wrote in the eighteenth century, that can lead them to change their behavior. This thesis explores how women in young adult literature—i

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Marlatt, Jarred J. "The Montagnards." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2338.

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Krasner, Sarah. "Adapting Skazki: How American Authors Reinvent Russian Fairy Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1055.

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Adaptations of works have the potential to bring their subject matter to a new audience. This thesis explores the adaptation of Russian fairy tales into novels by authors Orson Scott Card and Joy Preble by looking at how they present Russian fairy tales, folkloric figures, and fairy tale structure to an American audience.

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Renner, Jasmine R. "You Cannot Chase Two Antelopes at The Same Time." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. http://amzn.com/1490461604.

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"You Cannot Chase Two Antelopes at the Same Time" will teach your child(ren) the invaluable lesson of determination and focus. This heart-warming story about the courage and determination of a little boy and his sister who set out to chase two antelopes unsuccessfully, extracts in a vivid illustrative style, the important character trait of determination and focus. The little boy and girl set out to accomplish an impossible task and try different approaches, but to no avail. They finally figured out that in life some pursuits are too delicate to focus on multiple things at the same time. The v

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Shimizu, Kanako. "Above and Below the Sky: Examining Representations of the Atomic Bomb in Japan and in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1601.

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This study of atomic-bomb literature on Hiroshima will be through a critical lens, largely through postcolonial theory and reader-response criticism. It will be a discussion on the social and political implications behind the popularization of certain works. The discussed texts will not necessarily be written by the Japanese or by survivors of the atomic bomb: in the first case, I will be examining authorial intent and its relation to the intended reader responses from the implied American audience to study perpetuations of propaganda after the war. This paper will also be examining the interl

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Okoko, Lorna Ayiemba. "Interkulturalitat und Afrikabilder in der zeitgenossischen Jugendliteratur." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96094.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Globalization and the inherent shrinking of geographical boarders have rendered modern societies progressively culturally heterogeneous spaces. Increased encounters between people from different cultures have thus become a normal occurrence. Germany is in no way an exception to this socio-cultural phenomenon and has witnessed an emergence of multi-cultural societies, leading to concerted efforts in developing intercultural competence in all spheres of influence. Literature plays a pivotal role in the representation and transfer

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Panlay, Suriyan. "I crying for me who no one never hold before : critical race theory and internalised racism in contemporary African American children's and young adult literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/67569/.

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This study focuses on the issue of internalised racism depicted in contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, utilising Critical Race Theory (CRT) as its key theoretical framework. The study addresses three main thesis questions: (i) What effects does internalised racism have on the marginalised characters, and what are its manifestations? (ii) What narrative strategies have been utilised by the authors to help the characters regain and reclaim their sense of self? (iii) What is the contribution of CRT to children’s and young adult literature? Through critical analyse

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Sheppard, Natalie R. "Invincible: Legacy and Propaganda in Superhero Comics." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1943.

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Captain America and Iron Man are both iconic American heroes, representing different American values. Captain America was created during the Golden Age of comics and represents a longing for the past, while Iron Man was created at the height of the Cold War and looks forward to a new America. This paper will first establish the historical and cultural relationship between comic books and propaganda, beginning with the first appearance of Superman. It will pay special attention to the similarities and differences of Captain America and Iron Man, focusing on their representation of American valu

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Kilbourne, Kylee. "With Great Power: Examining the Representation and Empowerment of Women in DC and Marvel Comics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/433.

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Throughout history, comic books and the media they inspire have reflected modern society as it changes and grows. But women’s roles in comics have often been diminished as they become victims, damsels in distress, and sidekicks. This thesis explores the problems that female characters often face in comic books, but it also shows the positive representation that new creators have introduced over the years. This project is a genealogy, in which the development of the empowered superwoman is traced in modern age comic books. This discussion includes the characters of Kamala Khan, Harley Quinn, Gw

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