Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-125) and index.
Contents
Literary theory and YAL : strange bedfellows or a match made in heaven? -- The new literary theories and young adult literature : an overview -- Psychological criticism : motives, quests, and inner selves in The island -- Through a woman's eyes : reading Homecoming with a feminist lens -- Looking at the past through the present : a new historicist reading of My brother Sam is dead -- Playing with perspective : narrator strategies in Where the lilies bloom -- Interpretational play : deconstructing The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle -- Reading other worlds : culturally situated responses to Somewhere in the darkness and Requiem -- Putting it all together: from reader to text to reader.
