Struggles and Outsiders Are Focus of Modern Adolescent Literature.

Filipenko, Margot

Notes FAQ Contact Us

Back to results

ERIC Number: EJ343647

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

Pages: N/A

Abstractor: N/A

ISBN: N/A

ISSN: N/A

EISSN: N/A

Available Date: N/A

Struggles and Outsiders Are Focus of Modern Adolescent Literature.

Filipenko, Margot

Highway One, v9 n2 p15-19 Spr 1986

Argues that current adolescent literature has as its recurring hero the outsider and that unlike literature of the 1950s which encouraged conformity, today's literature for young adults encourages them to remain individuals even at the cost of breaking with society. (SRT)

Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescent Literature, Characterization, Conformity, Identification (Psychology), Individualism, Personality Traits, Reading Materials, Secondary Education, Social Adjustment, Social Development, Social Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

Education Level: N/A

Audience: N/A

Language: English

Sponsor: N/A

Authoring Institution: N/A

Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A

Author Affiliations: N/A