Textual Practice: v.12, Issue 1

Articles in this issue examine the split between national and popular interests through an analysis of Branagh's "multicultural" "Much Ado" - "a Shakespeare film for the world"; the problem of the "popular" in the field of cultural studies; Virginia Woolf's life as an essayist in the light of Adorno's theory of the genre; anti-Semitism in Cocteau's version of "La Belle et la Bete"; the binary of difference in Neil Jordan's "The Crying Game" ; and a reconsideration of Freud's castration complex.