Deme, Mariam Konate. Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic. New York and London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2010, forthcoming.
Farrell, Thomas J. "Faulkner and Male Agonism." In Dennis L. Weeks and Jane Hoogestraat, eds., Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts: Essays on the Thought of Walter Ong. Cranbury, NJ, and London, UK: Associated University Presses, 1998. 203-21. Explores an important theme in Faulkner's life and novels.
Gribbin, John. Science: A History 1543-2001. London: Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2002. The rise of modern science in print culture transformed the agonistic spirit of pro-and-con debate in the verbal arts of rhetoric and dialectic to a new level, just as the rise of modern capitalism in print culture also transformed the agonistic spirit to a new level.
Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. The translator is not identified by name. London: Routledge, 1949. A classic.
Koziak, Barbara. Retrieving Political Emotion: Thumos , Aristotle, and Gender. University Park, Pennsylvania: PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Press, 2000. The part of the human psyche that Plato and Aristotle refer to as "thumos" (usually rendered as the spirited part) is the psychodynamism of agonistic behavior.
Lloyd, G. E. R. Polarity and Analogy: Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought. Cambridge, England: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1966.
MacLean, Paul D. The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1990. Paul D. MacLean contends that the human brain is made up of three separate brains, which function together interactively in the way that he characterizes as constituting the triune human brain. What MacLean refers to as the reptilian brain is the biological base for all agonistic tendencies in all animals, including the human animal.
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