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Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games M. Mackey

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games By M. Mackey

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games by M. Mackey


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Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games Summary

Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games by M. Mackey

Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.

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'A remarkable piece of scholarship that combines stringent empirical research with profound theoretical thinking.' - Maria Nikolajeva, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK

About M. Mackey

MARGARET MACKEY is Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She teaches, researches, and publishes widely in the areas of multimodal literacies, changing reading behaviours, and young adult literature. Her recent books are Mapping Recreational Literacies and Literacies across Media.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Asking the Questions: How We Understand Stories Beginning: Designing the Project Thinking It Through: Theoretical Frameworks Paying Attention: Provisional Observations and Inferences Entering the Fiction: The Subjunctive and the Deictic Centre Orienting: Finding the Way Forward Filling Gaps: Inferences, Closure, and Affect Linking Making Progress or Making Do: The Unconsidered Middle Concluding: Reaching Provisional and Final Judgements Inhabiting the Story: Comparative Perspectives Understanding Narrative Interpretation References Appendix: Details of Groups and Sessions Index

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NLS9781349332694
9781349332694
1349332690
Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games by M. Mackey
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2011-07-08
258
N/A
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