摘要
Young adult and children＇s literature from Norway （Scandinavia） is often considered to be among the world＇s leading in the genre. This has taken place in a period of rapid cultural modernization. This article will discuss Norwegian young adult and children＇s literature from the perspective of social and cultural theory. The paper will go beyond the strictly aesthetic field and discuss young adult and children＇s literature from the perspectives of three internally related, though different continental modern theories, two of them left Hegelian. One of the great names of this school of theory of socialization is Thomas Ziehe, German theorist of ＂Sozialisationstheorie＂, Ziehe gives some clues for a new description of the implied readers inscribed in this literature. Axel Honneth is another theorist who has implications for general humaniora. His theory of recognition, fruitful for social sciences, may also give a clue for a metatheory of literature. Young adult and children＇s literature is also subject to changes of simulacric order and of the cultural disorder of the age of extremes, as Jean Baudrillard wrote about in his book The Transparency of Evil.
