03-03-2013, 07:09 PM | #61 |
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Key Point. Amazing the number of Jane Austin fans that I have met that don't see the satire. To me that is one of the best parts of her writing...Taking the piss out of society....among other things
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03-03-2013, 07:15 PM | #62 |
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Before the advent and general acceptance of YA, Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys and the like were in the Juvenile section of my library. We had a Juvenile section and we had an Adult section. That's it. Until 13/14, you were stuck with a juvenile library card (unless you got explicit permission from a parent). The age of the protagonist wasn't really a factor (except incidentally) in which section of the library a book was shelved. It was based on content, language and reading level (who decided, I have no clue).
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When do people think YA had its advent as a category? I know I was browsing/borrowing in the YA section of the public library in the early 1980s (possibly late 1970s). But I see a lot of people speaking as though it's something that was invented by marketers around the turn of the century or something.
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I graduated from High School in the mid-eighties and YA certainly never appeared anywhere in my public library's card catalog. If it was around before that, it wasn't universally accepted/utilized... regardless of when the term might have been coined. Because I lived in libraries/bookstores during the '70s, '80s and most of the '90s.
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I haunted the libraries from 1979 and there was always a YA section. Adjacent to the romance sectio as it happens. That's where I discovered my predilection for racy historical sagas (they were in both sections!) Luckily my mom signed that I could check out anything.
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I think it is referring to 18 and above age.
When you are already 18 I think it opens up all the privileges in life. especially "LOVE" |
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