Table Of Content

Volume 35 Contents Xumber I Rethinking Tragedy Winter 2004 Rita Felski Introduction V (ieorge Steiner "Tragedy,” Reconsidered 1 Simon Critchley 1 Want to Die, 1 Hate My Life— Phaedra’s Malaise 17 KiUhleen M. Sands Tragedy, Theology, and Feminism in the Time .\fter Time 41 Page dnBois Toppling the Hero: Polvphoiiy in the Tragic (City 63 |oshna Foa Dienstag Tragedy, Pessimism, Nietzsche 83 Elisabeth Bronl'en Femme Fatale—Negotiations ot Tragic Desire 103 Heather K. Love Spectacular Failure: The Figure ot the Lesbian in Mulholland Drive 117 Michel Maftesoli The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern Societies 133 Terry Fagleton (Commentary 151 CONTRlBl'TORS 161 BOOKS RFCFIVED 163 umber 2 Coherenre Spring 2004 Herbert F. Tucker Introduction \ Susan Jlaack (a)lit'rence, (lonsistency. Cogency, Cx)ngrnity, Cohesiveness, &c.: Remain ('.aim! Don’t (io Overboard! 167 (Christopher Herbert The ('.onnndrnm otC.oherence 185 Allan Mt-Kill ('.oherence and Incoherence in Historical Studies: From the Annales School to the New Cailtiiral History’ Horst Ruthrof The Fourth Critique Barr\ Allen The Ubiquitous Artifact: On Coherence Gregory' G. C^olonib/June Anne Griffin ('.oherence On and Oil the Page: What Writers ('.an Know About W'riting Coherently Frances Ferguson Coherence and (Changes in the Unknown World Barbara Maria Stafford Leveling the New Old Transcendence: (Cognitive (Coherence in the Era of Bevondness Mihalv Csikszentmihalyi Stalking A Neyv World Order CONTRIBUTORS BOOKS RECEIVED Wimher 3 Critical Inquiries, Explorations, and Explanations Summer 2004 Brunella Antomarini The Acoustical Prehistory' of Poetrv 355 Allan H. Pasco Literature as Historical Archive 373 Norman N. Holland The Power(?) of Literature: A Neuropsychological Vieyv 395 Scan Latham New Age Scholarship: The Work of Criticism in the Age of Digital Reproduction 411 Kate Rigby Earth, World, Text: On the (Im)possibility of F'copoiesis 427 Susan Ciubar The Long and the Short of Holocaust Verse 443 Svend Erik Larsen Landscape, Identity, and War 469 Shira Wolosky The Ethics of Foucauldian Poetics: Women’s Selves 491 Ward Tietz l.inking and Care in Connection 507 CONTRIBUTORS 523 BOOKS RECEIVED 525 Number 4 Forms and/of Decadence Autumn 2004 Mattliew Potolsky Introduction V Richard Dellamora Productive Decadence: “The Queer Comradeship of Outlawed Thought”: V'ernon Tee, Max Nordau, and Oscar Wilde 529 Florian Krobh “Die Kunst der Vater todtet das Leben der Enkel”: Decadence and (Tisis in Fin-<le-Siecle Cerman and Austrian Discourse 547 Norman V'ance Decadence from Belfast to Byzantium 563 Neville Moiiey Decadence as a Theory of History 573 Michael Silk Nietzsche, Decadence, and the Cireeks 587 Ellen O’Corman Decadence and Historical Understanding in Flaubert’s Salammbo 607 Richard van Oort The Critic as Ethnographer 621 Jim Hansen Formalism and Its Malcontents: Benjamin and de Man on the Function of Allegory 663 Micah Mattix Periodization and Difference 685 CONTRIBUTORS 699 BOOKS RKCEIVED 701