According to Matt Haig, YA is also remarkable for "blurring the boundaries" of genre and refusing to adhere to the rules of more rigidly defined literary fiction.
The American fantasy of its supposedly "classless" society has always given "culture" a slightly different meaning than it has in England, where social trajectories were more rigidly defined.
The circles people moved in and the roles they performed were far more rigidly defined than today, and the penalties for failure were often crueler, including banishment and death by sword.
Margaret Fuller, a woman of great talent and promise, had the misfortune to be born in Massachusetts in 1810, at a time and place in which the characteristics of what historians have termed "true womanhood" were becoming ever more rigidly defined.
Recent recommendations called for obstetricians to abandon the terms of "hyperstimulation" and "hypercontractility" in favor of the more rigidly defined term, "tachysystole" (TS).
She talks about the 1950s and 60s as a time when men and women had more rigidly defined roles, and that these led to societal "prototypes" that people could strive to emulate.
In today's phylogeny, heuristics are discussed almost exclusively in computational terms and hypotheses are more rigidly defined as propositions that are right or wrong.
This system in Clover seemed to serve a similar function to the repeat alert at Beech, but the ostensive routine was narrower and more rigidly defined.
