Interpreting Young Adult Literature: Literary Theory in the Secondary Classroom

Abstract

Inviting Theory - From Formalism to Cultural Studies Formalism - Structure and Idea in M.C. Higgins, Great Archetypes - the Monomyth in Dogsong Structuralism - Decoding Signs in The Moves Make the Man Deconstruction - Unravelling The Giver Reader-Response - Identity Themes in Fallen Angels Feminism - Mother/Daughter Transformations in The Leaving Black Aesthetics - Signifyin(g) in A Lesson Before Dying Cultural Studies - Social Construction and AIDS in Night Kites Theory as Prism - Multiple Readings in Jacob Have I Loved End Thoughts - Inviting Theory.