Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Works, particularly written or artistic works, produced in an author's or artist's youth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Things done (especially written) in youth; juvenile writings or works of art.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Works produced during anartist 's orauthor 'syouth .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My juvenilia is on the shelf for anyone to look at.
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Heydt-Stevenson importantly insists that the "abandon" of the juvenilia is not "entirely repressed" in
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_ 2006
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Juliet McMaster explores how in juvenilia in general the presence of "sexual knowingness in a child, especially a girl" is usually met with "resistance": "[w] riting and doing it are seen as perilously close, although the same assumption would not apply in the case of subjects less loaded" ( "Virginal Representations" 304-5, close window
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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Only now is Williams 'piece of late' juvenilia 'getting its European premiere and Sansom's production makes the case for it to be regarded as no less enduring than the O'Neill in terms of its themes but also richly distinctive in its own turbulent atmosphere.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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There is just no excuse for this kind of juvenilia anymore:
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"juvenilia" performs simultaneously to sexualize and desexualize the narrative of an authorial career.
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_ 2006
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I've gotten about halfway thru the 550-page 2nd volume of the Library Edition; I've finished, that is, all the poems he formally published & collected during his lifetime (the collection of record, which more or less signalled the close of Ruskin's already negelected poetic career, came out in 1850, when he was 31), & have just embarked on the real live "juvenilia," starting with the bits of precocious doggerel he was cranking out at 7 or so ....
GotPoetry.com News 2009
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We also shared bits of our most embarrassing juvenilia.
April 2010 Oregon Coast Writing Retreat spencimusprime 2010
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We also shared bits of our most embarrassing juvenilia.
April 2010 Oregon Coast Writing Retreat spencimusprime 2010
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Some of us think quite highly of your juvenilia – it should certainly be put on line.
john commented on the word juvenilia
"Now John McCain is pea-green with envy. That’s the only explanation for why a man who prides himself on honor, a man who vowed not to take the low road in the campaign, having been mugged by W. and Rove in South Carolina in 2000, is engaging in a festival of juvenilia."
The New York Times, McCain’s Green-Eyed Monster, by Maureen Dowd, August 5, 2008
August 6, 2008