The narratological and stylistic mechanics of Young Adult fiction redeployed in creative writing teaching: the cases of Veronica Roth, Sabaa Tahir and Tomi Adeyemi ; Les ressorts narratologiques et stylistiques de la Young Adult Fiction et leur redéploiement vers l'écriture créative à l'université, les cas de Veronica Roth, Sabaa Tahir et Tomi Adeyemi

This doctoral thesis explores the workings and mechanisms of American bestselling Young Adult fiction through the interdisciplinary prism of stylistics, narratology, cognitive sciences, language teaching and poetics. Through the analysis of a corpus made up of Veronica Roth’s Divergent (2011), Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes (2015) and Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone (2018)—all New York Times bestselling novels—I aim to study style but more particularly the forms and the inner workings of their narratives from a didactic and creative standpoint, in light of creative knowledge and... Mehr ...