Volume 35 Contents

Number 1	Rethinking Tragedy	Winter 2004
Rita Felski	Introduction	v
George Steiner	"Tragedy," Reconsidered	1
Simon Critchley	I Want to Die, I Hate My Life— Phaedra's Malaise	17
Kathleen M. Sands	Tragedy, Theology, and Feminism in the Time After Time	41
Page duBois	Toppling the Hero: Polyphony in the Tragic City	63
Joshua Foa Dienstag	Tragedy, Pessimism, Nietzsche	83
Elisabeth Bronfen	Femme Fatale—Negotiations of Tragic Desire	103
Heather K. Love	Spectacular Failure: The Figure of the Lesbian in Mulholland Drive	117
Michel Maffesoli	The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern Societies	133
Terry Eagleton	Commentary	151
CONTRIBUTORS		161
BOOKS RECEIVED		163
Number 2	Coherence	Spring 2004
Herbert F. Tucker	Introduction	v
Susan Haack	Coherence, Consistency, Cogency, Congruity, Cohesiveness, &c.: Remain Calm! Don't Go Overboard!	167
Christopher Herbert	The Conundrum of Coherence	185
Allan Megill	Coherence and Incoherence in Historical Studies: From the Annales School to the New Cultural History	207
Horst Ruthrof	The Fourth Critique	233
Barry Allen	The Ubiquitous Artifact: On Coherence	259
Gregory G. Colomb/June Anne Griffin	Coherence On and Off the Page: What Writers Can Know About Writing Coherently	273
Frances Ferguson	Coherence and Changes in the Unknown World	303
Barbara Maria Stafford	Leveling the New Old Transcendence: Cognitive Coherence in the Era of Beyondness	321
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi	Stalking A New World Order	339
CONTRIBUTORS		349
BOOKS RECEIVED		351
Number 3	Critical Inquiries, Explorations, and Explanations	Summer 2004
Brunella Antomarini	The Acoustical Prehistory of Poetry	355
Allan H. Pasco	Literature as Historical Archive	373
Norman N. Holland	The Power(?) of Literature: A Neuropsychological View	395
Sean 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 Ecopoiesis	427
Susan Gubar	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	Linking and Care in Connection	507
CONTRIBUTORS		523
BOOKS RECEIVED		525
Number 4	Forms and/of Decadence	Autumn 2004
Matthew Potolsky	Introduction	v
Richard Dellamora	Productive Decadence: "The Queer Comradeship of Outlawed Thought": Vernon Lee, Max Nordau, and Oscar Wilde	529
Florian Krobb	"Die Kunst der Väter tödtet das Leben der Enkel": Decadence and Crisis in Fin-de-Siècle German and Austrian Discourse	547
Norman Vance	Decadence from Belfast to Byzantium	563
Neville Morley	Decadence as a Theory of History	573
Michael Silk	Nietzsche, Decadence, and the Greeks	587
Ellen O'Gorman	Decadence and Historical Understanding in Flaubert's Salammbô	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 RECEIVED		701