Modernism, Theory, and Responsible Reading

Stephen Ross is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Past-President of the Modernist Studies Association (2015/16) and General Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Online.

• Introduction1. Stephen Ross (University of Victoria) – “Responsible Reading” Section I: Theory2. Robert Baines (University of Evansville) – “The Positive of the Negative: Joycean Post-Structuralism as Felskian Critique”3. Fabio Ackelrud Durão (Unicamp) –“Responsible Reading of Theory”4. Yan Tang (University of Victoria) – “Modernism, Critical Theory, and Affect Theory Avant la lettre”5. Kathryn Carney (Western University) – “The Case for Prosthetic Thinking”Section II: Method6. Daniel Aureliano Newman (University of Toronto) – “Beyond the Search Image: Reading as (re)search”7. Cristina Ionica (Fanshawe College) –“On the Advantages of Saying “No” (to Binaries, Totalizations, “Weakness,” “Modesty,” “Humility”)”8. Masami Sugimori (Florida Gulf Coast University) – “Weak Theory, “Responsible” Reading, and Literary Criticism”Section III: Practice9. Roger Rothman (Bucknell University) – “Absolutely Small: Sketch of an Anarchist Aesthetic”10. Matthew Gannon (Boston College) – “Adorno as a Reader: Writing the Mediation of Literature and Philosophy11. Sonita Sarker (Macalester College) – “Writing from Somewhere, Reading from Anywhere: New Criticism and (Neo)liberal Globalization”12. Rivky Mondal (University of Chicago) – “Too Literal Transation: Some Poems of Roger Fry”Afterword12. Paul K. Saint-Amour – “Afterword”

Any reader of affect, cultural, feminist, and queer studies will find this book enlightening, and it should be praised for its critical move forward; modernist scholars in particular will want to read this book as it pushes modernist studies in a new direction.