Article: Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits.

By Terry Castle, Columbia. 160 pp. $19.95.

Terry Castle is a literature scholar possessed. Spectral metaphors are trendy these days in academic Pomo World, but they often provide nothing more than a flashy way of talking about subtext; at one conference a few years ago, panelists tactlessly discussed "Derrida's ghost" in the presence of the living man, who was in fact getting on in years and looking pale. Terry Castle's spirits are different. Intimately rooted in the human realm, they inevitably illuminate and delight.

Before homosexuality became an explicit theme in her work, Castle spent years working on what was to be a landmark analysis of ...

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