Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays. Eds. Ann Abate Michelle and Athene Tarbox Gwen.
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'Scholars have placed considerable importance on the study of contemporary children's and young adult (YA) comics, and this collection of twenty critical essays furthers that endeavor. As editors of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays, Michelle Abate and Gwen Tarbox make a sensible case as to why there needs to be a continuation of scholarship of children's and YA comics. Since the beginning of the twenty‐first century, there has been a boom in the number of publications inside this genre. This explosion of material has reached young readers in school libraries and classrooms. While the field of comics studies continues to blossom, little attention has actually been given to children's and YA comics in contemporary times. Most comics scholars have tended to focus on comics aimed at young adults before the twentieth century. This work helps fill this hole in comics scholarship.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Journal of Popular Culture Revisiting Adventure vol. 51 no. 6 2018 15394210 2018 periodical issue

    'This special issue is the first sustained academic exploration of the contemporary adventure narrative across a wide range of media. While many other types of texts that emerged during the late‐eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including gothic horror, romance, travel narrative, and melodrama, have received considerable attention, the contemporary adventure narrative has been left out of or taken for granted by recent popular culture studies. The absence of adventure in recent scholarship may, paradoxically, have to do with the ubiquitous presence of the form. Like many other genres, adventure has invaded and merged with a host of other modes and genres, from television reality game shows, such as Survivor, to gritty war films, such as Black Hawk Down. Indeed, as several of the contributions to this issue demonstrate, the contemporary adventure form often appears in trans‐genre texts where the adventure component is perceived as secondary.' (Johan Höglund and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet : Revisiting Adventure: Special Issue Introduction )

    2018
    pg. 1569-1571
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