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Filtering by: Committee Member Shaw, Susan M. Academic Affiliation English Subject Adolescence in literature

A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

Creator:

Davenport, Mattie R.

Abstract:

In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult novels for relaying messages about adolescence and femininity to adolescents from adult authors. I explore the traditional and organized quest narrative as written by Anne McCaffrey in her Harper Hall Trilogy with a young female hero....

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Masters Thesis

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Sebell?‟” Menolly puts a stop to Piemur‟s assumptions: “„I‟m not sure I care for that emphasis,‟ said