Once a reader forms a response, how is the next step taken? How are analysis of books communicated to the rest of the world? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Fiction for Young Adults

How a Reader Develops a Response

From Pride and Prejudice to Twilight, Looking for Alibrandi to The Hunger Games, students in this subject will analyse factors affecting the emergence and development of fiction for young adults as a distinctive literature category over the last twenty years. Students will also focus on recent trends in this field, including the development of a range of critical perspectives for interpreting themes, issues and responses to this literature by adults and adolescents.

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Fiction for Young Adults