This article offers a way to leverage young adult literature in guiding students to consider the meanings of continuity and change within their own development. Borrowing theories of change from the evolutionary sciences, we developed a critical lens focusing on the role of technology in young adult literature. Based on a comprehensive review of Michael L. Printz Award and Honor titles and YALSA Teens’ Top Ten books from the past two decades, we identified how two theories of evolution, gradualism and punctuated equilibrium, offer a frame for interpreting young adult literature. Through an examination of the novels Asking for It by Louise O’Neill and Butter by Erin Jade Lange, we demonstrate how these theories can be used in the language arts classroom to enhance discussions about change brought on by technology to provoke deep, intertextual readings of young adult literature.

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连续性和变化？通过以技术为中心的关键镜头阅读年轻的成人文学

本文提供了一种方法，可以利用成人文学作品指导学生考虑自身发展中的连续性和变化的含义。我们从进化科学中借用了变化理论，因此我们开发了一个批判性的镜头，着眼于技术在年轻成人文学中的作用。在对Michael L.Printz奖项和荣誉头衔以及YALSA Teens过去二十年来的十本书进行了全面回顾的基础上，我们确定了进化论，渐进主义和标点均衡这两种理论如何为解释年轻成人文学提供框架。通过对路易斯·奥尼尔和巴特的小说《问它》的考察 由艾琳·杰德·兰格（Erin Jade Lange）撰写，我们演示了如何在语言艺术课堂中使用这些理论，以增强对技术带来的变革的讨论，从而引发对年轻成人文学作品的深入互文阅读。