Agonistics

Janet Lungstrum is Assistant Professor of German Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Elizabeth Sauer is Associate Professor of English Literature at Brock University. She is the author of Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics.

"The editors have staked out the domain of agonistics in their Introduction, tracing its various definitions from Nietzsche through Freud and Wittgenstein, to Derrida, Bloom, and Lyotard. They have also structured the individual analysis around four, well-balanced thematic focuses that broach agonistic creativity from a philosophic, psychoanalytic, narratological, and socio-sexual point of view. These focuses are to a large extent complementary, establishing a continous intertextual dialogue across the thematic separations." — Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Creative Agonistics: An IntroductionJanet Lungstrum and Elizabeth SauerIContests in Cultural PhilosophyHomer's ContestFriedrich Nietzsche (translated by Jordan Dieterich and Janet Lungstrum)Cultural Agonistics: Nietzsche, the Greeks, Eternal RecurrenceBenjamin C. SaxClosing the Eye: Hegel, Derrida, and the Closure of PhilosophyArkady PlotnitskyWalter Benjamin: The Prophet's War against ProphecyMarcus Paul BullockIIPsychoanalytic and Racial ConflictsInterpretation Interminable: Agonistics in PsychoanalysisVolney P. GayThe Institutionalization of Conflict as an Interpretative Strategy in Freud's The Interpretation of DreamsLorna MartensThe Jewish Genius: Freud and the Jewishness of the CreativeSander L. GilmanCriminality and Poe's Orangutan: The Question of Race in DetectionNancy A. HarrowitzIIIAgonal Aesthetics and Narrative Theory"A Chain of Utmost Potency": On the Agon and the Creative ImpulseJohn A. McCarthyThe Partial Song of Satanic Anti-Creation: Milton's Discourses of the Divided SelfElizabeth SauerThe Penman and the Postal-Carrier: Preordained Rivalry in Joyce's Finnegans WakeAndrew SchmitzThe Gender of Fiction: Henry James's "Backward Glance" at the Agon of CompositionCecile Mazzucco-ThanIVAgons of Gender and the BodyThe Muse AbusedLisabeth Duringv The Sportive Agon in Ancient and Modern TimesJohn HobermanBaudrillard, After Hours, and the Postmodern Suppression of Socio-Sexual ConflictCynthia WillettAgonal Politics in Space and Time: Arendt and Le Guin on World CreationGeorge A. TreyNotes on ContributorsIndex