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Tables of Contents for Agonistics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Creative Agonistics: An Introduction
1
32
Janet Lungstrum
Elizabeth Sauer
I Contests in Cultural Philosophy
33
76
Homer's Contest
35
11
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jordan Dieterich
Janet Lungstrum
Cultural Agonistics: Nietzsche, the Greeks, Eternal Recurrence
46
24
Benjamin C. Sax
Closing the Eye: Hegel, Derrida, and the Closure of Philosophy
70
22
Arkady Plotnitsky
Walter Benjamin: The Prophet's War against Prophecy
92
17
Marcus Paul Bullock
II Psychoanalytic and Racial Conflicts
109
88
Interpretation Interminable: Agonistics in Psychoanalysis
111
18
Volney P. Gay
The Institutionalization of Conflict as an Interpretative Strategy in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
129
23
Lorna Martens
The Jewish Genius: Freud and the Jewishness of the Creative
152
25
Sander L. Gilman
Criminality and Poe's Orangutan: The Question of Race in Detection
177
20
Nancy A. Harrowitz
III Agonal Aesthetics and Narrative Theory
197
76
"A Chain of Utmost Potency": On the Agon and the Creative Impulse
199
27
John A. McCarthy
The Partial Song of Satanic Anti-Creation: Milton's Discourses of the Divided Self
226
14
Elizabeth Sauer
The Penman and the Postal-Carrier: Preordained Rivalry in Joyce's Finnegans Wake
240
16
Andrew Schmitz
The Gender of Fiction: Henry James's "Backward Glance" at the Agon of Composition
256
17
Cecile Mazzucco-Than
IV Agons of Gender and the Body
273
74
The Muse Abused
275
18
Lisabeth During
The Sportive Agon in Ancient and Modern Times
293
12
John Hoberman
Baudrillard, After Hours, and the Postmodern Suppression of Socio-Sexual Conflict
305
20
Cynthia Willett
Agonal Politics in Space and Time: Arendt and Le Guin on World Creation
325
22
George A. Trey
Notes on Contributors
347
4
Index
351