5,534 research outputs found
Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
Full text linkYoung adult dystopian fictions follow the patterns established by the classic adult dystopias such as George Orwell\u27s 1984 and Aldous Huxley\u27s Brave New World, but not completely. Young adult dystopias tend to end happily, a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith and John Savage. Young adult authors resist hopelessness, even if the fictional world demands it.
Using a rhetorical approach established by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep, this thesis traces the reasons for the inclusion of hope and the strategies by which hope is created and maintained. Booth\u27s rhetorical approach recognizes that a narrative is a relational act. At issue in this study is the consideration of what follows from viewing a narrative as a dynamic exchange between text, author and reader. Through a focus on rhetoric as identification, the responsibilities of both the author and the reader to a text are identified and discussed.
Three young adult novels, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L\u27Engle, The Giver by Lois Lowry and Feed by M.T. Anderson will be analyzed as case studies. Together the analysis of these novels reveals that storytelling is an act of forging identifications and forming alliances. The reader becomes more than just a spectator of the author\u27s rhetoric; the reader is a fully involved member of the interpretive and evaluative process
ELM, Inc. Plaintiff/Appellee, vs. M.T. Enterprises, Inc. aka M.T. Mechanical, a Utah corporation; and Morris Told : Appellants\u27 Petition for Rehearing
Full text linkELM, INC. Plaintiff/Appellee, vs. M.T. Enterprises, Inc. aka M.T. Mechanical, a Utah corporation; and Morris Told CaseNo.971578-CA Defendants/Appellants/Petitioners. APPELLANTS\u27 PETITION FOR REHEARING Appeal From the Orders of the Fourth District Court, Utah County, State of Utah Honorable Howard Maetan
- …
