Cancer and young adult literature / edited by Stephen M. Zimmerly.
| Other author | Zimmerly, Stephen M., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025] |
| Description | vii, 180 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Monster Theory and Parental Loss in A Monster Calls / Sarah Minslow -- The Wilting Branch: The Effects of Cancer on the Family Unit / Abigail Bailey -- A Matter of Perspectives: How Pediatric Patients and Parents Cope with Cancer and Death in Ways to Live Forever and Before I Die / Alessia Silvestrin -- Last Things: Sick Protagonists' Bucket Lists / Jennifer Marchant -- Grounded in Fantasy or Reality: Comparing real-life accounts of adolescent cancer with fictional themes of experience in popular YA texts / Katie Doering -- "Oddest and Most Hopeless:" Leukemia, the YA Cancer Narrative, and Writing for Young Adults / Stephen M. Zimmerly -- Teenage Hospital Romance among the Cancerously Ill in Cellular and Too Young to Die / Arka De Barman -- EcoGothic and Bodily Decay in the Film Adaptations of A Walk to Remember (2002), Now is Good (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Clouds (2020) / Jesse Bair. |
| Abstract | "This collection critically presents arguments studying cancer as it is portrayed in Young Adult literature. The essays included offer insights into cancer and families, cancer and relationships, cancer and story-telling, and more"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques litteĢraires. |
| LCCN | 2024041398 |
| ISBN | 9781666927566 |
| ISBN | 1666927562 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |