This invaluable guide offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of 20th century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theory by Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical concerns, as well as each field's principal figures and interpretive modes. As with other books in theTransitions series, Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory includes readings of a range of widely-studied texts, including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great...
This invaluable guide offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of 20th century literary theory. A complementary tex...
Divided into four descriptive sections---Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text, - -Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power, - -Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of Narrative as Witness, - and -Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of Applied Ethical Criticism---this unprecedented collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of criticism. Wayne C. Booth's -Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple, - J. Hillis Miller's -How to Be 'in Tune with the Right' in The Golden Bowl, -...
Divided into four descriptive sections---Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text, - -Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power, - -Mak...
Divided into four descriptive sections---Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text, - -Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power, - -Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of Narrative as Witness, - and -Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of Applied Ethical Criticism---this unprecedented collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of criticism. Wayne C. Booth's -Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple, - J. Hillis Miller's -How to Be 'in Tune with the Right' in The Golden Bowl, -...
Divided into four descriptive sections---Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text, - -Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power, - -Mak...
In Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack investigate the emerging gaps between literary scholarship and the reading experience itself. For Davis and Womack, the idea of reconciling the void - the locus of our sociocultural disillusionment and despair in an increasingly uncertain world - concerns explicit artistic attempts to represent the ways in which human beings seek out meaning, hope and community in spite of the void's immutable shadow.
In Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack investigate the emerging gaps between literary scholar...
