English Studies (ENGL) - 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.