STEPHEN HEATH lives and works in Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Jesus College. - COLIN MacCABE is Distinguished Service Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh where he has taught since 1985. Since 1998 he has also taught as Professor of English at Exeter University and produced for Minerva Pictures. - - DENISE RILEY is Reader in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her books include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983), Am I That Name ? Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History (1988) and The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000). She edited Poets on Writing; Britain, 1970-199l (l1992) and she was Writer-in-Residence in 1996 at the Tate Gallery, London. Her most recent collection of poetry, following Penguin Modern Poets Vol 10 with Ian Sinclair and Douglas Oliver (1996) is Denise Riley: Selected Poems, 2000.

• 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

STEPHEN HEATH lives and works in Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Jesus College. - COLIN MacCABE is Distinguished Service Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh where he has taught since 1985. Since 1998 he has also taught as Professor of English at Exeter University and produced for Minerva Pictures. - - DENISE RILEY is Reader in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her books include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983), Am I That Name ? Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History (1988) and The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000). She edited Poets on Writing; Britain, 1970-199l (l1992) and she was Writer-in-Residence in 1996 at the Tate Gallery, London. Her most recent collection of poetry, following Penguin Modern Poets Vol 10 with Ian Sinclair and Douglas Oliver (1996) is Denise Riley: Selected Poems, 2000.

• 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

STEPHEN HEATH lives and works in Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Jesus College. - COLIN MacCABE is Distinguished Service Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh where he has taught since 1985. Since 1998 he has also taught as Professor of English at Exeter University and produced for Minerva Pictures. - - DENISE RILEY is Reader in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her books include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983), Am I That Name ? Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History (1988) and The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000). She edited Poets on Writing; Britain, 1970-199l (l1992) and she was Writer-in-Residence in 1996 at the Tate Gallery, London. Her most recent collection of poetry, following Penguin Modern Poets Vol 10 with Ian Sinclair and Douglas Oliver (1996) is Denise Riley: Selected Poems, 2000.

• 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