The Niagara Effect: Reimagining Emotional Intensity in Young Adult Writing

Contemporary Young Adult (YA) fiction often aims to capture and generate “emotional intensity,” which is held to be an inherent feature of the teenage experience. To produce this effect, YA authors frequently employ an expressive first-person voice, which is constructed as a mechanism for a certain...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Noah Weisz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elen Caldecott & Lucy Cuthew 2023-04-01
Series:Leaf Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.58091/c3qq-c748