Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. Part One: Theory
5. 1. The Politics of Reading: Nonconsensual Reciprocity and the Negotiation of Differences 2
6. 2. Play, Power, and Difference: The Social Implications of Iscr's Aesthetic Theory 22
7. 3. Being "Out of Place": Edward Said and the Contradictions of Cultural Differences 42
8. Part Two: Criticism
9. 4. ART AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY IN "THE DEATH OF THE LION" 62
10. 5. Historicizing Conrad: Temporal Form and the Politics of Reading 74
11. 6. Misogyny and the Ethics of Reading: The Problem of Conrad's Chance 93
12. 7. Liberalism and the Politics of Form: The Ambiguous Narrative Voice in Howards End 109
13. 8. Reading India: The Double Turns of Forster's Pragmatism 127
14. 9. JAMES JOYCE AND THE POLITICS OF READING 144
15. Pedagogical Postscript: Liberal Education, the English Major, and Pluralistic Literacy 177
16. WORKS CITED 193
17. INDEX 203