Appleby, Joyce. Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2010. What Appleby refers to as relentless revolution involves the agonistic structures of the human psyche, which capitalism takes to a new level as does modern science.
Bakan, David. The Duality of Human Existence: An Essay on Psychology and Religion. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1966. David Bakan defines and explains two central tendencies in human nature, which he refers to as agency and communion. What he means by agency is the psychodynamism of the agonistic spirit discussed by Walter J. Ong. In The Psychology of Gender, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009), Vicki S. Helgeson works with Bakan's terms of agency and communion. In my article "The Female and Male Modes of Rhetoric" in the professional journal College English (Urbana, Illinois), 40, 8 (April 1979): 909-21, I have defined two modes of rhetoric that decidedly resemble what Bakan means by agency and communion. On page 910, I make the following brief characterizations: "The thinking represented in the female mode [of rhetoric] seems eidetic, methectic, open-ended, and generative, whereas the thinking in the male mode [of rhetoric] appears framed, contained, more pre-selected, and packaged."
Bloom, Harold. Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism. Oxford and New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1982.
Bowra, C. M. Heroic Poetry. London: Macmillan, 1952.
Broich, Ulrich. The Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poem, translated from the 1968 German original by David Henry Wilson. Cambridge, England: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1990. In The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies (New York: Macmillan, 1962: 188-89, 218), Walter J. Ong discusses the mock epic as a manifestation of the humanist shift toward writing, which meant the waning of the old oral agonistic tendencies linked to the Latin language.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 3rd ed. Novato, California: New World Library, 2008. Very accessible.
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