Modernism Theory and Responsible Reading

Introducing readers to a new theory of 'responsible reading' this book presents a range of perspectives on the contemporary relationship between modernism and theory. Emerging from a collaborative process of comment and response it promotes conversation among disparate views under a shared commitment to responsible reading practices.<br/>An international range of contributors question the interplay between modernism and theory today and provide new ways of understanding the relationship between the two and the links to emerging concerns such as the Anthropocene decolonization the post-human and eco-theory.<br/>Promoting responsible reading as a practice that reads generously and engages constructively even where disagreement is inevitable this book articulates a mode of ethical reading that is fundamental to ongoing debates about strength and weakness paranoia and reparation and critique and affect.