Play and the politics of reading: the social uses of modernist form

1: Theory

The politics of reading: nonconsensual reciprocity and the negotiation of differences

Play, power, and difference: the social implications of Iser's aesthetic theory

Being "out of place": Edward Said and the contradictions of cultural differences

2: Criticism

Art and the construction of community in "the death of the lion"

Historicizing Conrad: temporal form and the politics of reading

Misogyny and the ethics of reading: the problem of Conrad's chance

Liberalism and the politics of form: the ambiguous narrative voice in Howards end

Reading India: the double turns of Forster's pragmatism

James Joyce and the politics of reading: power, belief, and justice in Ulysses

Pedagogical postscript: liberal education, the English major, and pluralistic literacy.