|
Problem novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Problem novel is a term used to refer to a sub-genre of young adult literature that deal exclusively with an adolescent's first confrontation with a social or personal ill. The term was first used in...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_novel |
|
Social novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Social novels , also known as social problem novels or realist fiction, originated in the eighteenth century but gained a popular following in the nineteenth century with the rise of the Victorian Er...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_novel |
|
|
Problem novel definition. Tend to be very strongly subject oriented ... Writers of problem novels need to find a way to create literature out of problems, ...
|
|
|
Home > Publications > American Educator > Issues > Winter 2004/2005 > ; Reflections on the "Problem Novel" ... I couldn’t hear them, but could see that they were clearly discussing an audiotape Alex was holding, a novel on tape he’d gotten from the library the day before. The book, I knew, was Chasing Redbird by...
|
|
|
A writer and mother reflects on the pros and cons of the "problem novel"—that ubiquitous subgenre of adolescent literature in which tragedy piles on tragedy.
|
|
|
Pixelfish wants to know what a problem novel is. My own definition until fairly recently was: a contemporary realist YA novel that I don't like because it's ... When the reader finds the right problem novel for them it does a world of good. I am now for these novels even though I still find some of them overly preachy...
|
|
|
In this book, a sequel to a middle grade novel, the main character and her best friend have moved on to seventh grade. And though I didn't set out to write a problem novel, the story grew into one, with a parent having an affair that precipitates the breakup of a family and one of the girls developing an eating disorder.
|
|
|
It is life on the continent before 1492 that Dorris depicts in Morning Girl (1992), a novel set on the island of Hispanola among the Arawak people during the months preceding Columbus' landing in 1492. Far removed from the familiar, romanticized settings of popular literary and cinematic treatments of the American...
|
|
|
PAPA’S PROBLEM is an historical mystery set in Key West, Florida during the depression days when Ernest “Papa” Hemingway resided there. ... PAPA’S PROBLEM is an historical mystery set in Key West, Florida during the depression days when Ernest “Papa” Hemingway resided there. Our protagonist is Emmet MacWain,
|
|
|
"I was trying to think of an Indian novel that is not a "problem" novel. I mean one that doesn't concern itself mainly with religious, gender or cultural clashes of one kind or the other. I can't think of a one.
|
