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Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games

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  • © 2011

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  1. Margaret Mackey
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Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Asking the Questions: How We Understand Stories

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 1-14

  3. Beginning: Designing the Project

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 15-38

  4. Thinking It Through: Theoretical Frameworks

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 39-57

  5. Paying Attention: Provisional Observations and Inferences

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 58-75

  6. Entering the Fiction: The Subjunctive and the Deictic Centre

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 76-94

  7. Orienting: Finding the Way Forward

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 95-121

  8. Filling Gaps: Inferences, Closure, and Affect Linking

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 122-135

  9. Making Progress or Making Do: The Unconsidered Middle

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 136-164

  10. Concluding: Reaching Provisional and Final Judgements

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 165-198

  11. Inhabiting the Story: Comparative Perspectives

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 199-218

  12. Understanding Narrative Interpretation

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 219-237

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 238-258
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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.

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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 the author

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.

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