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This invaluable guide by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of twentieth-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 the Transitions series, Formalist Critici...

The scholarly response to John Irving's novels has impinged upon a wide range of contemporary subjects of interest, from postmodernism and ethics to gender studies, the family, and historical criticism. This volume draws on a series of contemporaneous reviews and scholarly essays to provide the reader with an in-depth look at Irving's work.

Divided into four descriptive sections -- "Theory and the Ethicsof 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 unprecedentedcollection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concernsinherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of cri...

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 cri...