Define+Our+Terms

=Defining Our Terms=

As we discuss texts today, let's come to a consensus definition for the following terms:

 * Problem Novel
 * ====Coming of Age====
 * A type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both, often by a process of disillusionment. Understanding comes after the dropping of preconceptions, a destruction of a false sense of security, or in some way the loss of innocence. Some of the shifts that take place are these:
 * ignorance to knowledge
 * innocence to experience
 * false view of world to correct view
 * idealism to realism
 * immature responses to mature responses (The above taken from the webpage [|Glossary of Literary Terms])
 * ====Bildungsroman====
 * ====Young Adult Literature====
 * ====Adolescent Literature====
 * ====Children's Literature====