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Paper topic
Feb. 22nd, 2015 08:39 pmThis is enough of a paper topic that someone's probably already done the research, but here's a hypothesis:
One of the reasons I so often have to hold myself back from describing YA realism novels as "modernist" or even "existentialist," is that some of the core elements of both -- subjectivity, disorientation, confusion, and chaos in a seemingly absurd world, all as the ultimate, horrifying breakage which must be solved by the central character -- provide a very sensible thematic structure for the way the West defines adolescence.
Man, modernism as an adolescent worldview. Of course I would think that; I'm a post-modernist at heart.
One of the reasons I so often have to hold myself back from describing YA realism novels as "modernist" or even "existentialist," is that some of the core elements of both -- subjectivity, disorientation, confusion, and chaos in a seemingly absurd world, all as the ultimate, horrifying breakage which must be solved by the central character -- provide a very sensible thematic structure for the way the West defines adolescence.
Man, modernism as an adolescent worldview. Of course I would think that; I'm a post-modernist at heart.
