Chapter 1 Imperialism, Marxism, Conrad: a political reading of Victory, TERRY COLLITS; Chapter 2 The construction of woman in three popular texts of empire: towaras a critique of materialist feminism, ROSEMARY HENNESSY, RAJESWARI MOHAN; Chapter 3 Lost in the funhouse: Baudrillard and the politics of postmodernism, CHRISTOPHER NORRIS; Chapter 4 Resisting the public discourse of AIDS, WAUDAG; Chapter 5 Inscribing the body politic: Robert Coover's Spanking the Maid, ELIZABETH WRIGHT; Part 1 Letters; Chapter 6 Elementary Truths; Part 2 Reviews; Chapter 7 Life after Larkin: postmodern British poetry, ANDREW LAWSON; Chapter 8 • Patricia Yaeger, Honey-Mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women's Writing (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 317 pp., n.p., MARY JACOBUS; Chapter 9 • Geoffrey Bennington, Lyotard: Writing the Event (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), 189 pp., £22.50, THOMAS DOCHERTY; Chapter 10 • 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., DAN LATIMER; Chapter 11 • Sylviane Agacinski, APart é: 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., GENE FENDT; Chapter 12 • Sidney Greenbaum, Good English and the Grammarian (London and New York: Longman, 1988), xii+152 pp., £7.95, N. F. BLAKE; Chapter 13 Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (Oxford: Polity Press, 1988), 157 pp., £19.50, MARY HAMER; Chapter 14 • Michael Meehan, Liberty and Poetics in Eighteenth-Century England (London: Croom Helm, 1986), 210 pp., £17.95, STEPHEN COPLEY; Chapter 15 • Jacques Attali, Noise (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985), 181 pp., £7.50, ALASTAIR WILLIAMS, KEN HIRSCHKOP; Chapter 16 • 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), EDWARD NEILL;
