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Davis and Kenneth Womack  \nFormalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory  \ntransitions  \nGeneral Editor: Julian Wolfreys  \nPublished Titles  \nNEW HISTORICISM AND CULTURAL MATERIALISM John Brannigan POSTMODERN NARRATIVE THEORY Mark Currie  \nFORMALIST CRITICISM AND READER-RESPONSE THEORY Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack  \nMARXIST LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORIES MoyraHaslett  \nLITERARY FEMINISMS Ruth Robbins DECONSTRUCTION • DERRIDA Julian Wolfreys CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE, 1337–1580 SunHee Kim Gertz MILTON TO POPE, 1650–1720 Kay Gilliland Stevenson  \nBURKE TO BYRON, BARBAULD TO BAILLIE, 1790–1830 Jane Stabler JACQUES LACAN Jean-Michel Rabaté  \nBATAILLE Fred Botting and Scott Wilson  \nForthcoming Titles  \nNATIONAL IDENTITY John Brannigan IDEOLOGY James Decker  \nQUEER THEORY Donald E. Hall  \nPOSTMODERNISM • POSTMODERNITY Martin McQuillan RACE Brian G. 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Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above.  \nCustomer Services Department, Palgrave Distribution Ltd Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England  \ntransitions  \nF o r m a l i s t  \nC r i t i c i s m a n d R e a d e r-R e s p o n s e T h e o r y  \nTodd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack  \n© Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack 2002  \nAll rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.  \nThe authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nFirst published 2002 by PALGRAVE  \nHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and  \n175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010  \nCompanies and representatives throughout the world  \nPALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of  \nSt. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd).  \nISBN 0–333–76531–1 hardback ISBN 0–333–76532–X paperback  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Davis, Todd F., 1965–  \nFormalist criticism and reader-response theory/Todd F. 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