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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: An Ode to the Romance Novel
Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding, and romance novels are full of tropes reflected upon its history. It has been the subject of intrigue, derision, and shame in...
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: How Fantasy Reflects Our World
Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic! Okay, there's some of that. But it's also a lens to what our society finds important to our pasts, our presents, and future. [5:59]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Why Did They Make Me Read This in High School?
What makes a book important? Why are some books required reading in high school, while others are lost to history? Check out this video essay. [5:46]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: The Evolution of Ya
Young Adult Fiction (YA) is dominating literature, and more young people are reading now than ever before. Lindsay Ellis explores how YA carved a place in publishing with It's Lit! from PBS Digital Studios. [5:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: When the Book Is Better Than the Movie
This video [5:28] essay focuses on Which is better, the book or the movie? Explore the question with Lindsay Ellis in It's Lit! from PBS Digital Studios.
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Khan Academy: Olga Rozanova, 'A Little Duck's Nest... Of Bad Words'
Books played a major role in 1913. Some books were hand-colorized by the artist, so each is unique, propose just a different relationship between text and images. Olga Rozanova is one of the artists who pioneered this new use of books....