Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature

by Sara K. Day

Book Overview

By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617038113
• ISBN13: 9781617038112
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"