(urth) PF as YA

[Mo Holkar / UKG]

At 23:47 15/04/2009, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
>I know that "didactic" has a pejorative connotation in many
>circumstances (which might be derived from New Critical orthodoxy, at
>least in part); but I meant it only descriptively.


It seems to me likely that Wolfe means all of his work to have a 
didactic element (in that descriptive sense). Otherwise, what would 
be the moral purpose of writing it?

And to go back to your slightly earlier question -- while Chris 
surely isn't held up as a moral exemplar, he does seem to me to be 
portrayed sympathetically, and his exploits laid out in such a way 
that instruction might be drawn from them. So this might be a more 
sophisticated take on the identify-with protagonist of simplistically 
didactic YA. I'm not an expert, but I'm sure there must be a 
tradition of other such in the YA canon.

Mo


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