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Focuses on a very significant psycho-cultural concept (that of "agonistics" or "contestatory creativity") with ramifications in several areas of the postmodern debate: cultural philosophy, psychologies of race, gender and the body, and narratology.
This book examines the ambiguities inherent in the concept of the agon as a motivating, conflictual force behind creative and social expression. The notion of agonistics extends far beyond the literary fame lent it by Harold Bloom to embrace all aspects of culture. The editors blend theoretical sophistication with an interdisciplinary approach and reposit the agon in a new, broad context for postmodern inquiry. Taking their inspiration from Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay “Homer’s Contest,” Lungstrum and Sauer trace the evolution of the agon: from its vital function in ancient Greece, through modernity, and onward.
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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.
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“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
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- PublisherState University of New York Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0791434125
- ISBN 13 9780791434123
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages359
- EditorLungstrum Janet, Sauer Elizabeth
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Paperback. Condition: Gut. VIII, 359 p. Buchrücken lichtbedingt etwas ausgeblichen, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / Spine a bit faded due to light, otherwise a good and clean copy. - Table of Contents Creative Agonistics: An Introduction Janet Lungstrum and Elizabeth Sauer I Contests in Cultural Philosophy Homer's Contest Friedrich Nietzsche (translated by Jordan Dieterich and Janet Lungstrum) Cultural Agonistics: Nietzsche, the Greeks, Eternal Recurrence Benjamin C. Sax Closing the Eye: Hegel, Derrida, and the Closure of Philosophy Arkady Plotnitsky Walter Benjamin: The Prophet's War against Prophecy Marcus Paul Bullock II Psychoanalytic and Racial Conflicts Interpretation Interminable: Agonistics in Psychoanalysis Volney P. Gay The Institutionalization of Conflict as an Interpretative Strategy in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams Lorna Martens The Jewish Genius: Freud and the Jewishness of the Creative Sander L. Gilman Criminality and Poe's Orangutan: The Question of Race in Detection Nancy A. Harroivitz Ill Agonal Aesthetics and Narrative Theory "A Chain of Utmost Potency": On the Agon and the Creative Impulse John A. McCarthy The Partial Song of Satanic Anti-Creation: Milton's Discourses of the Divided Self Elizabeth Sauer The Penman and the Postal-Carrier: Preordained Rivalry in Joyce's Finnegans Wake Andrew Schmitz The Gender of Fiction: Henry James's "Backward Glance" at the Agon of Composition Cecile Mazzucco-Than. IV Agons of Gender and the Body The Muse Abused Lisabeth During The Sportive Agon in Ancient and Modern Times John Hoberman Baudrillard, After Hours, and the Postmodern Suppression of Socio-Sexual Conflict Cynthia Willett Agonal Politics in Space and Time: Arendt and Le Guin on World Creation George A. Trey Notes on Contributors Index. ISBN 9780791434123 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 486. Seller Inventory # 1232535
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