Textual Practice: Journal, Voume 8, Number 1 (textual Practice Journal)

Editor Terence Hawkes, University of Wales College of Cardiff Postal address: Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales College of Cardiff, PO Box 94, Cardiff CF1 3XB US associate editor Jean E.Howard Columbia University Postal address: Department of English and Comparative Literature, 602 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, New York N.Y. 10027, USA Reviews editor Fred Botting Lancaster University Postal address: Department of English, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT Editorial board Gillian Beer Girton College, Cambridge Malcolm Bowie All Souls’ College, Oxford Terry Eagleton University of Oxford John Frow Queensland University, Australia Linda Hutcheon Toronto University, Canada Ania Loomba Stanford University, USA Editorial Assistant Louise Tucker This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Textual Practice is published three times a year, in spring, summer and winter, by Routledge Journals, 11 New Fetter Lane, London, EC4P 4EE. All rights are reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author(s) and publishers, but academic institutions may make not more than three Xerox copies of any one article in any single issue without needing further permission; all enquiries to the Editor. Contributions and correspondence should be addressed to the Editor at University of Wales College of Cardiff. Books for review and related correspondence should be addressed to Fred Botting Department of English, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT Advertisements. Enquiries to David Polley, Routledge Journals, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE. Subscription rates (calendar year only): UK/EC full: £60.00; UK/EC personal: £22.00; USA full: $95.00; USA personal: $35.00; Rest of World full: £65.00; Rest of World personal: £24.00. All rates include postage; airmail rates on application. Subscriptions to: Subscriptions Department, Routledge Journals, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants, SP10 5BE. ISSN 0950–236X Phototypeset by Intype, London © Routledge 1994 ISBN 0-203-98634-2 Master e-book ISBN TEXTUAL PRACTICE VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 SPRING 1994 Errata It is regretted that there were two errata in Textual Practice Volume 7 No. 2, Summer 1993. In J.A.Hurtley’s review of B.Jordan’s Writing and Politics in Franco’s Spain, in the paragraph beginning ‘A last word’ on p. 334, at 1. 18 ‘free discourse’ should read ‘free direct discourse’; on p. 335 note 9 line 2 ‘le paraúso’ should read ‘el paraíso’. Contents Articles The Right and the Good: postmodernism and the liberal state TERRY EAGLETON 1 Chopin’s parrot STEPHEN HEATH 11 Farrago GARY TAYLOR 32 Dismantling authenticity: Beckett, Adorno and the ‘post-war’ TYRUS MILLER 42 Florentines, Flemings, and frames ANDREW STOTT 57 The purloined postcard: waiting for Bunyan TAMSIN SPARGO 79 Wittgenstein’s tumour: AIDS and the national body THOMAS YINGLING 97 Interviewed by Noel King STEPHEN GREENBLATT 114 Reviews Stephen J.Greenblatt, Learning to curse SHIVA SRINIVASAN 129 Robert Young, White Mythologies MPALIVE-HANGSON MSISKA 139 Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence ANTONY EASTHOPE 146 Fra