Book Review: The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Teen Literature

Schwartz, Jessica

doi:10.5860/rusq.58.4.7158

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“…Horror fictiona genre intended to frighten audiencesis popular among young adults (Clasen, 2017) and often serves as a common entry point into reading (Carstensen, 2018). Despite the precarious history and conventions of the horror genre that perpetuates racist, sexist and homophobic tropes (Brooks, 2017), there is a long tradition of fan communities disrupting problematic horror tropes through practices of counter-storytelling and reinterpretation (Middlemost, 2019).…”

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Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula

Jones

Storm

Corbitt

2023

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Purpose This study aims to explore the implications of a recent case in spring 2022 where the novel Dracula went “viral” as tens of thousands of Tumblr users participated in a serialized re-reading and discussion of the text through the hashtags #dracula and #dracula daily. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design approach (quant: topic modeling; qual: multimodal content analysis) to examine how users describe their own practices as well as top posts (more than 25,000 likes, comments and reblogs) in the first month of the collective reading of the novel. Findings The authors found that the serialization of Dracula made space for “wandering reading practices” (Chavez, 2010) relevant to this interpretive community on Tumblr. The quantitative methods determined specific affective, intertextual and serialized aspects of textual play that were salient to readers. In top posts themselves, the authors saw readers creating metaleptic content imagining characters like the protagonist Jonathan in other novels or contexts, as well as processing and playing with their collective emotional responses toward characters. Additionally, readers used irony or satire through multimodal compositions to create literary arguments. Originality/value Playfully analyzing literature together through intertextual connections and multimodal memes has the potential to be both emotionally resonant, culturally relevant and supportive of literary interpretive practices. Based on these findings, the authors provide suggestions for teachers working to embrace interpretive play in formal learning spaces.

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