Todd F. Davis is Associate Professor of English at Penn State at Altoona. He is coauthor (with Kenneth Womack) of Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory and coeditor (with Womack) of Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (also published by SUNY Press), Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory, and The Critical Response to John Irving. He is also the author of a book of poetry, Ripe.

Acknowledgments

1. Postmodern (Midwestern) Morality: The Act of Affirming Humanity in a Screwed-up World

2. Searching for Answers in the Early Novels: Or, What Are We Here for Anyway?

3. Apocalyptic Grumbling: Postmodern Righteousness in the Late Novels

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