1st Edition

Textual Practice 10.3

Edited By Alan Sinfield Copyright 1997
    168 Pages
    by Routledge

    167 Pages
    by Routledge

    Volume 10, Issue 3- Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism "Thomas Doucherty"--Descartes, Baudrillard, Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and France in the late seventeenth century.ILaodamia and the moaning of Mary "John" "Barrell"--changing critical responses to Wordsworth's "heroic version of masculinity." Melodrama as Avant-garde: enacting a new subjectivity "Simon Shepherd"--nineteenth-century English radicals and translations of French melodrama. The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora "Vijay Mishra;" Bisexuality, heterosexuality and wishful theory "Jonathan Dollimore. Reviews, index. Holcroft ""IA Tale of Mystery, --a melo-drame" and ICaleb Williams.

    Articles: The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora, ‘Laodamia’ and the moaning of Mary, Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism, Melodrama as avant-garde: enacting a new subjectivity, Bisexuality, heterosexuality, and wishful theory, Reviews: Rosalind E.Krauss, The Optical Unconscious, Joan Copjec, Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists, Paul Virilio, The Art of the Motor, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Baroque Reason. The Aesthetics of Modernity, Peter Carravetta, Preface to the Diaphora, Nicholas Zurbrugg, The Parameters of Postmodernism, Laure, The Collected Writings, Fred Ingis, Raymond Williams, Refiguring Modernism T.E.Hulme, The Collected Writings of T.E.Hulme

    Biography

    Alan Sinfield (Sussex University)