Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - The Dying Teenager in Young Adult Literature

ENGL 3436  The Dying Teenager in Young Adult Literature

Prerequisites:

Six credits of 2000 level ENGL (excluding ENGL 2001 and ENGL 2011) or any 45 credits completed (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502, ENGL 2001, ENGL 2011)

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week

Credits:

3

Description:

Students explore twenty-first century texts about the dying teenager directed to a teenage readership. They contextualize contemporary texts like The Fault in Our Stars (2012) in relation to literature from past centuries such as Little Women (1869) and A Token for Children (1672). They analyze the reasons for the popularity of this subgenre and the ways in which the relationship between literature and popular culture contributes to that popularity.



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