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 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, " Susan Gubar's "Poets of Testimony, "and Martha C. Nussbaum's "Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical Criticism"are among the fifteen essays included. Bringing together ethical criticism's mostimportant theorists, Mapping the Ethical Turn is a cohesive introduction to areading paradigm that continues to influence the ways in which we think and feelabout the stories that mark our lives.