This article provides a close reading of Geraldine McCaughrean’s award-winning
novel, The White Darkness. It argues that this is a key text in the increasing
debate about ‘crossover’ literature. Whereas, traditionally, adolescent books
were seen to offer compensatory fantasies to the adolescent reader,
McCaughrean’s text goes beyond this, exploring adolescence in deeper terms: not
simply as an age... hiện toàn bộ