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.
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.
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.

Stephen Ross is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Past-President of the Modernist Studies Association (2015/16) and General Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Online.

Introduction
1. Stephen Ross (University of Victoria) - "Responsible Reading"
Section I: Theory
2. Robert Baines (University of Evansville) - "The Positive of the Negative: Joycean Post-Structuralism as Felskian Critique"
3. Fabio Ackelrud Durão (Unicamp) -"Responsible Reading of Theory"
4. Yan Tang (University of Victoria) - "Modernism, Critical Theory, and Affect Theory Avant la lettre"
5. Kathryn Carney (Western University) - "The Case for Prosthetic Thinking"


Section II: Method
6. Daniel Aureliano Newman (University of Toronto) - "Beyond the Search Image: Reading as (re)search"
7. Cristina Ionica (Fanshawe College) -"On the Advantages of Saying "No" (to Binaries, Totalizations, "Weakness," "Modesty," "Humility")"
8. Masami Sugimori (Florida Gulf Coast University) - "Weak Theory, "Responsible" Reading, and Literary Criticism"
Section III: Practice
9. Roger Rothman (Bucknell University) - "Absolutely Small: Sketch of an Anarchist Aesthetic"
10. Matthew Gannon (Boston College) - "Adorno as a Reader: Writing the Mediation of Literature and Philosophy
11. Sonita Sarker (Macalester College) - "Writing from Somewhere, Reading from Anywhere: New Criticism and (Neo)liberal Globalization"
12. Rivky Mondal (University of Chicago) - "Too Literal Transation: Some Poems of Roger Fry"


Afterword
12. Paul K. Saint-Amour - "Afterword"