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The Motif of Meeting: a Content Analysis THE MOTIF OF MEETING: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MULTI-VOICED YOUNG ADULT NOVELS by Susan Hardy Stolp A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Bozeman, Montana April 2019 ©COPYRIGHT by Susan Hardy Stolp 2019 All Rights Reserved ii DEDICATION To my parents for their support and encouragement and for instilling in me a love for reading and learning: Marjorie G. Walsh and William J. Walsh and the late Ellis R. Hardy To my wonderful husband, Jackson Stolp, for your love and commitment. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to my creative, inspirational, and energetic doctoral committee. Your insights, wisdom, and time shared have been invaluable to my success with this dissertation. Dr. Joyce Herbeck, Chair, Montana State University, Bozeman Dr. Priscilla A. Lund, Montana State University, Bozeman Dr. Ann Dutton Ewbank, Montana State University, Bozeman Dr. Beverly Ann Chin, University of Montana, Missoula iv TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................1 The Fugue ........................................................................................................................1 Fugal Analogy ..................................................................................................................4 Subject: Love for Literature .....................................................................................5 Answer: Critical Literacy: Listening to All Voices .................................................6 Young Adult Literature Enters the Exposition ........................................................7 Teaching Literature for Love and Wisdom ..............................................................8 Purpose of the Study ........................................................................................................9 Research Questions ........................................................................................................11 2. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ...............................................................................12 Dialogism and Heteroglossia .........................................................................................12 The Chronotope and the Motif of Meeting ...................................................................14 Critical Literacy .............................................................................................................16 Time and Narrative ........................................................................................................17 Transactional Responsiveness and Reader-Response Theory .......................................18 Adolescence, Intersubjectivity, and Solipsism ..............................................................20 Polyphony in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction .......................................................22 Polyphony, Multivoiced Narratives, and Multistranded Narratives .....................22 Polyphony and the Fugue ......................................................................................23 Complexity and Interwoven Threads ............................................................................25 Development of Character and Assimilation into Culture ............................................26 Young Adult Literature .................................................................................................27 Contemporary Realism, the YA Revolution, and the First Golden Age ..............28 Shifting Trends and the Second Golden Age ........................................................29 Crossover Appeal ..................................................................................................30 Young Adult Literature Awards ..........................................................................31 Content Analyses of Emerging Trends in Young Adult Literature ...............................32 3. METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................35 Introduction ...................................................................................................................35 Significance of Study ....................................................................................................36 Purpose of Study ...........................................................................................................37 Content Analysis ...........................................................................................................37 Text Selection ................................................................................................................38 Salt to the Sea ......................................................................................................38 All American Boys..................................................................................................39 The Smell of Other People’s Houses ....................................................................40 Research Questions .......................................................................................................40 v TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTINUED Affective Coding Methods ............................................................................................42 Coding as a Heuristic ............................................................................................42 In Vivo Coding ......................................................................................................42 Emotion Coding ....................................................................................................43 Coding for Narrators’ References to Other Narrators ............................................44 Methodological Evolution .............................................................................................46 Exploratory Process ..............................................................................................46 Creative Heuristics ................................................................................................47 Summary ........................................................................................................................48 4. CONTENT ANALYSIS ................................................................................................50 Book One: Salt to the Sea ..............................................................................................50 Structure and Voices .............................................................................................50 Joana: Research Question 1 ..................................................................................50 Joana’s Emotion Codes: Guilt, Caring, Strength, Despair ...................................51 Guilt ..............................................................................................................51 Caring ............................................................................................................52 Strength ........................................................................................................53 Despair ........................................................................................................54 Emotional Cycle: Guilt-Caring-Strength-Despair ........................................54 Sequence: Isolation-Interaction-Growth .......................................................55 Isolated Moments of Anger ..........................................................................56 Analysis of First Moment of Anger ..............................................................57 Analysis of Second Moment of Anger ........................................................58 Joana: Research Question 1a ................................................................................59 First Meeting with Florian and Emilia ........................................................60 Second Meeting with Florian and Emilia .....................................................62 Critical Point of Meeting: Fugal Metaphor: Crossing the Ice ....................63 Inner Voices: Audible Connections with Florian ......................................64 Empathy for and Realization of Emilia’s Truth .........................................65 Critical Point of Meeting: Fugal Metaphor: On the Top Deck ....................66 Fugal Variation: Stretto ................................................................................68 Joana: Research Question 2 ................................................................................69 Joana and Florian ..........................................................................................70 Joana and Emilia ...........................................................................................72 Joana and Alfred ...........................................................................................73 Florian: Research Question 1 ................................................................................74 Florian’s Emotion Codes: Hiding, Empathy, Resourcefulness, Arrogance...........75 Hiding – Empathy Cycle .............................................................................75 Resourcefulness – Arrogance Correlation ..................................................76 vi TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTINUED Isolated Moments of Anger ..........................................................................78
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