EN286 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Louisa May Alcott, Transcendentalism, Protestantism
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Difference between little women and tom brown"s schooldays. Zdilla"s list of characteristics of ya literature. 1, the main characters are teenagers o o o. Bildungsroman - the novel"s development - definition - begin in childhood, then go into teenager. Thus, in early yal, sometimes there were teenagers, sometimes there were teenagers go into adults, not always teenagers through the whole books. 3, the point of view is always first person, and usually that of a teenager. Audience of the book was expected to be female. Tbs - language/style - being told formally, the author tried to mimic the voice of a teenager, but from our perspective, it was formal, the language was complex, the sentences were long, it was a formal voice. The first part of it was that the author was talking to his ideal audience. The author associated the implied readers as young people, primarily/entirely male (gender specific)
