Joseph Abbruscato
Author of The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman
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The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature… by Joseph Abbruscato
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.This is a great overview of the use of Gothic in YA literature. I had not read all the books which were discussed, but the main points were concisely presented and I felt that I understood each essays main points. As a fan of Neil Gaiman and Orson Scott Card I enjoyed the essays which focused on some of their works.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature is an informative and thought provoking look at a frequently maligned/marginalized genre. I would have liked it better if more authors had been covered (I love Neil Gaiman, but did the book really need to have two full essays and a significant chunk of a third dedicated to his work?), but overall it was worth the read.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I enjoyed the articles collected in this book that were obtainable to me, having read the materials in discussion. Those that I hadn't read yet are now on my wishlist. While some of the essays were more a review of other people's theories, I appreciated the depth of interpretation in all of them, showing that fairy tales are more than just stories for children.
As another reviewer suggested, this collection of essays might be a way to interest students in literary theory.
As another reviewer suggested, this collection of essays might be a way to interest students in literary theory.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I have not read every young adult novel discussed in this collection of critical essays, but did find the essays that were accessible to me (especially the two essays on Neil Gaiman and the essay on Orson Scott Card) interesting. One of the essays from this volume could be an excellent way to introduce older secondary students to literary criticism, intertextuality, and/or the study of literary archetypes. This volume might also help persuade a reluctant department head or school administrator that young adult literature can be integrated in the curriculum in a way that still demands and develops higher level thinking and writing. I also enjoyed the introductory essay by Abbruscato (although I don't fully agree with his criticism of modern so-called "fairy tales") and could foresee using it in whole or in part during a unit on fairy tales and their adaptations.
I do agree with a previous reviewer that the authors occasionally get so caught up in their scholarly exploration that they seem to lose touch with the spirit of the original text. This is always an issue with scholarly criticism of literature, however, rather than a vice specific to this volume.… (more)
I do agree with a previous reviewer that the authors occasionally get so caught up in their scholarly exploration that they seem to lose touch with the spirit of the original text. This is always an issue with scholarly criticism of literature, however, rather than a vice specific to this volume.… (more)
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