The Art of Being Ordinary: Cups of Tea and Catching the Bus in Contemporary British YA
Young adult novels are full of ordinary things and everyday actions, and these “reality effects”, to use Roland Barthes’ term, can help to build the meaningful connective tissue against which textual adolescents exist. This article examines contemporary British realist YA in order to understand the...
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| Language: | English |
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Fincham Press
2020-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Young Adult Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://ijyal.ac.uk/articles/10.24877/ijyal.34 |