Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory

Fifteen papers, collected by Davis (English, Goshen College) and Womack (English, Penn State U.), explore the connections between literary criticism and ethical thinking in the context of the demise of modern humanism. Theoretical, interpretative, and pedagogical issues are addressed in sections that explore issues of race and power as revealed and read into texts, the implications of narrative as witness, and the possibilities of ethical criticism. Among the authors examined in the essays are Toni Morrison, J. M. Coetzee, Jacqueline Osherow, Margaret Atwood, and Henry James. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)