The Critic Agonistes

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 and 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: 0295961619

Contents: 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.