"What is Young Adult Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

What is the Young Adult Literature? What are some of YA literature's common themes and characteristics? How does YA differ from adult or mainstream literatures?
In this short lesson, MFA student Bec Ehlers answers these questions using examples taken from J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Sara Zarr's Story of a Girl. The video is designed to help high school and college English students identify and analyze YA literature within and beyond their literature classes.
A collaborative partnership between Ehlers and OSU Senior Lecturer Wayne Harrison, the video is sponsored by the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University. For more discussions of literary topics and essay writing tips, please subscribe to the free SWLF KZread Channel or visit liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf
Spanish subtitles are now available for this video. To access these subtitles, click on the settings icon in the video.
Timestamps
0:00 YA Literature Introduction
0:46 Foundational YA Authors
2:15 Why is YA Literature Popular?
2:36 YA Literature vs Adult Literature
2:58 YA Literature Example
3:55 Conclusions

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  • @SWLF
    @SWLF6 ай бұрын

    If you enjoyed this video, please give us a like, drop us a question about YA Literature, or share your favorite example of the genre. Thanks for watching, everybody!

  • @marylee8372
    @marylee83726 ай бұрын

    Super explanation of YA.

  • @SWLF

    @SWLF

    6 ай бұрын

    Thanks, @marylee8372 ! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170Ай бұрын

    Thank you for your wonderful literary cultural channel. If you please can I gather main information of every video it’s great help for me to improve my English. Young adult literature is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 , including most of themes found in adults fiction such as friendships, substance, abuse , alcoholism, sexuality. Stories that focuse of youth other categorized association or coming of age novels . There are six steps for writing adults novel get pov . Make sure of characters age suits audience. Figure out voice , language will follow. Don’t be shy of touchy subjects . Don’t get preachy . Write hopeful ending. Famous young adults author such as Louis may Alcott her novel little women , genre children, adult , realistic novel , romance. It’s really great novel we watched little women cartoon dubbed into Arabic . Plot summary as I remember sisters with their mother and , they spent first Christmas without their father during American civil war , they helped poor and fed hungry family . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information, remanded us of our beautiful childhood memories.

  • @SWLF

    @SWLF

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks so much for keeping the conversation going, @Khatoon170! If you'd like to read the transcripts for our videos to help you practice your English, you can find them here: liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/oregon-state-guide-english-literary-terms