附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-125) and index.
Literary theory and YAL: strange bedfellows or a match made in heaven? / James Phelan -- 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.