The Language, Discourse, Society Reader

Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Heath, C.MacCabe & D.Riley James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word; C.MacCabe On Law and Ideology; P.Q.Hirst Language, Semiotics and Ideology; M.Pêcheux The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction; J.Rose The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry; D.Trotter Understanding Beckett: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett; P.Gidal Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero; B.Rotman The Desire to Desire: The Women's Film of the 1940s; M.A.Doane 'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History; D.Riley Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory; R.Tallis The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune; K.Ross Improvement and Romance: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands; P.Womack Poetry and Narrative in Performance; D.Oliver Visual and Other Pleasures; L.Mulvey The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism; C.West Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970-1991; D.Riley The Crisis in Historical Materialism; S.Aronowitz The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge; J.Barrell On Pornography: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law; I.Hunter, D.Saunders & D.Williamson De-Hegemonizing Language Standards: Learning from (Post)Colonial Englishes about 'English'; A.Parakrama Resources of Realism: Prospects for a 'Post-Analytic' Philosophy; C.Norris The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernisms; L.Stonebridge Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology; S.Shostak Pragmatics as Interpretation; J-J.Lecercle Cities, Words and Images: From Poe to Scorsese; P.Lombardo Series Bibliography