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Title: Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1997). orig.boards. 23x15cm, viii, 359 pp. Minor rubbing, light page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contains 16 papers. Includes: B.C. Sax "Cultural Agonistics: Nietzsche, the Greeks, Eternal Recurrence"; A. Plotnitsky "Closing the Eye: Hegel, Derrida, & the Closure of Philosophy"; M.P. Bullock "Walter Benjamin: The Prophet's War Against Prophecy"; V.P. Gay "Interpretation Interminable: Agonistics in Psychoanalysis"; L. Martens "The Institutionalization of Conflict as an Interpretative Strategy in Freud's 'The Interpretation of Dreams' "; S.L. Gilman "The Jewish Genius Freud & the Jewishness of the Creative"; N.A. Harrowitz "Criminality & Poe's Orangutan: The Question of Race in Detection"; J.A. McCarthy " ' A Chain of Utmost Potency': On the Agon & the Creative Impulse"; E. Sauer "The Partial Song of Satanic Anti- Creation: Milton's Discourses of the Divided Self"; A. Schmitz "The Penman & the Postal-Carrier: Preordained Rivalry in Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' "; C.Mazzucco-Than "The Gender of Fiction: Henry James's 'Backward Glance' at the Agon of Composition"; L. During " The Muse Abused"; J. Hoberman "The Sportive Agon in Ancient & Modern Times"; C. Willett "Baudrillard, 'After Hours' & the Postmodern Suppression of Socio-Sexual Conflict"; G.A. Trey " Agonal Politics in Space & Time: Arendt & Le Guin on World Creation".

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Literature Contests, Creativity Creation, Aesthetics Agonal, Psychoanalytic, Narrative, Narratology Contest

Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS007574I