Textual Practice | Issue 9 Volume 3 No. 3 | Terence Hawkes | Taylor &

ABSTRACT

This book should be of interest to students and teachers of literature and literary theory.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Imperialism, Marxism, Conrad: a political reading of Victory

chapter |33 pages

The construction of woman in three popular texts of empire: towaras a critique of materialist feminism

chapter |25 pages

Lost in the funhouse: Baudrillard and the politics of postmodernism

chapter |8 pages

Resisting the public discourse of AIDS

chapter |13 pages

Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover's Spanking the Maid

part |3 pages

Letters

chapter |3 pages

Elementary Truths

part |69 pages

Reviews

chapter |12 pages

Life after Larkin: postmodern British poetry

chapter |4 pages

• Patricia Yaeger, Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 317 pp., n.p.

chapter |9 pages

• Geoffrey Bennington, Lyotard: Writing the Event (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), 189 pp., £22.50

chapter |9 pages

• Michael Sprinker, Imaginary Relations. Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism (London and New York: Verso, 1987), 302 pp., £29.95 and £9.95.

chapter |5 pages

• Sylviane Agacinski, Aparté: Conceptions and Deaths of Søren Kierkegaard, translated with an introduction by Kevin Newmark. `Kierkegaard and Post-modernism' Series, ed. Mark C.Taylor (Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1988), xi+266 pp., n.p.

chapter |3 pages

• Sidney Greenbaum, Good English and the Grammarian (London and New York: Longman, 1988), xii+152 pp., £7.95

chapter |4 pages

Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (Oxford: Polity Press, 1988), 157 pp., £19.50

chapter |3 pages

• Michael Meehan, Liberty and Poetics in Eighteenth-Century England (London: Croom Helm, 1986), 210 pp., £17.95

chapter |9 pages

• Jacques Attali, Noise (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985), 181 pp., £7.50

chapter |3 pages

• Rick Rylance (ed.), Debating Texts: A Reading in Twentieth Century Literary Theory and Method (Milton Keynes: The Open University, 1987), 290 pp., £5.95 (paperback)