The Critic Agonistes

Bibliope Verified independent store

→

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985. Hardcover quarto in black DJ. xii, 270 pages: b/w illustrations; 24 cm Gift inscription by author to half title page. Mild rubbing an d chipping to head of DJ spine. Mild rubbing to DJ foot of spine. Else DJ in archival mylar. Book is fine in near fine DJ. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0295961619Contents: 1. On Freudianism and the critic: The critic Agonistes -- The black art of psychoanalytic criticism -- 2. On American literature: The red badge of courage -- Shedding his sickness in books: Sherwood Anderson's literary case history -- Ernest Hemingway: the stylist of stoicism -- Lyrical Darwinism and the mythical world of Faulkner's The hamlet -- William Faulkner and the runaway slave -- Caliban on Prospero: on Saul Bellow's Seize the day -- 3. On European literature: D.H. Lawrence: the forms of sexual hunger -- Freedom and immortality: notes from the Dostoevskian underground -- Freudian criticism: Frank O'Connor as paradigm. Psychoanalysis and literature. Fiction -- History and criticism. Show more