Brian W. Shaffer

Reading the novel in English, 1950-2000

Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Introduction: Contexts and Concepts for Reading the Novel in English, 1950-2000. 2. Kingsley Amiss Lucky Jim (1953). 3. William Goldings Lord of the Flies (1954). 4. Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart (1958). 5. Muriel Sparks The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). 6. Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). 7. J. M. Coetzees Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). 8. Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale (1985). 9. Kazuo Ishiguros The Remains of the Day (1989). 10. Patrick McCabes The Butcher Boy (1992). 11. Graham Swifts Last Orders (1996). Index

Rebarbarizing Civilization: Conrad's African Fiction and Spencerian Sociology

(1993). He is the guest editor of a special issue of Conradiana on teaching Heart of Darkness (1992). He is at work on a study of politics and sexuality in the modern British novel. Evidently, therejore, the conquest of one people over another has been, in the main, the conquest of the social man over the anti-social man; or, strictly speaking, of the more adapted over the less adapted. Herbert Spencer, Social Statics

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

Note on Translation Introduction by Michael Holquist Response to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial Staff The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel) The Problem of Speech Genres The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis From Notes Made in 1970-71 Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences Index