Young Adult Fiction (CWRI90009) // Further information

Further information

• Texts

  Prescribed texts

  Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Scholastic Australia, 2009

  Margo Lanagan, Sea Hearts, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012

  David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014

  There will also be readings available through the LMS electronic site for this subject.

  Recommended texts and other resources

  • P Hunt, Children’s Literature: the Development of Criticism, Routledge, 1990.
  • K Reynolds, Radical Children’s Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • J Kristeva, Powers of Horror, Columbia University Press, 1982.
• Related Handbook entries

  This subject contributes to the following:

  Type	Name
  Course	Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing
  Specialisation (formal)	Creative Writing
  Specialisation (formal)	Graduate Certificate in Arts - Creative Writing
  Informal specialisation	PD-ARTS Creative Writing
  Informal specialisation	Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) - Creative Writing
  Specialisation (formal)	Creative Writing
  Informal specialisation	Creative Writing

• Available through the Community Access Program

  About the Community Access Program (CAP)

  This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.

  Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants

  Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.

  Additional information for this subject

  Subject coordinator approval required

Last updated: 3 November 2022