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008			130109s2013 miu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9781621039600
020			_a1621039609
020			_z9781617038112 (hardback)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aPS374.I57 _bD39 2013
082	0	0	_a813/.60992837 _223
100	1		_aDay, Sara K.
245	1	0	_aReading like a girl _h[electronic resource] : _bnarrative intimacy in contemporary American young adult literature / _cSara K. Day.
260			_aJackson : _bUniversity Press of Mississippi, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490	0		_aChildren's literature association series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about adolescent women and marketed to adolescent women. Sara K. Day explains, though, that such levels of imagined friendship lead to contradictory cultural expectations for the young women so deeply obsessed with reading these novels. Day coins the term "narrative intimacy" to refer to the implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends on an imaginary disclosure and trust between the story's narrator and the reader. Through critical examination, the inherent contradictions between this enclosed, imagined relationship and the real expectations for adolescent women's relations prove to be problematic. In many novels for young women, adolescent female narrators construct conceptions of the adolescent woman reader, constructions that allow the narrator to understand the reader as a confidant, a safe and appropriate location for disclosure. At the same time, such novels offer frequent warnings against the sort of unfettered confession the narrators perform. Friendships are marked as potential sites of betrayal and rejection. Romantic relationships are presented as inherently threatening to physical and emotional health. And so, the narrator turns to the reader for an ally who cannot judge. The reader, in turn, may come to depend upon narrative intimacy in order to vicariously explore her own understanding of human expression and bonds"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aGirls in literature.
650		0	_aAdolescence in literature.
650		0	_aTeenage girls _xBooks and reading _zUnited States.
650		0	_aYoung adult literature, American _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aDay, Sara K. _tReading like a girl _dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013 _z9781617038129 _w(DLC) 2013002086
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781621039600/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c32745 _d32745