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How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things
Gandal, Keith
The University of Michigan Press
07/2024
300
Mole
Inglês
9780472056958
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Acknowledgments
Author's Note and Disclaimer
Prologue: June 26, 1984: Truth is the Widow
Part I. An Authentic Mystery
1. 21 Years Later: My Fathers' Ghosts
2. My Better Half
3. Scholarly Detective Story I: Noticing Anomalies in the Lit-Crit Paradigm
4. Guns, Guard Dogs, and Yoga
Part II. Pretty Ugly Rivalries
5. Midlife Athletic Crisis
6. Scholarly Detective Story II: Identifying the Literary Mysteries To Be Solved
7. Secondhand Existence
8. Scholarly Detective Story III: Finding Clues in the Literature
9. A Farewell to Love Handles
10. Meetings with Unbearable Men
11. Scholarly Detective Story IV: Discovering Primary-Source Historical Evidence (in My Wife's File Cabinet)
Part III. Fear and Doubting
12. The Spleen of Tennis
13. Early-Life Crisis, 1968, Age 8
14. Scholarship Lessons, 1983: Wednesdays with Michel (Foucault)
15. Professional Blunder, Berkeley, 1986.
16. Paralysis on the Court
Part IV. The Lost-Out Generation
17. Scholarly Detective Story V: Hypothesizing Historical Revision and Searching for Proof
18. "Hitter's Block"
19. Why I Didn't Die at Age 8
20. Scholarly Detective Story VI: Examining the Historical Revision: Analyzing Discrepancies between Accepted Histories and New Evidence
21. Is Zen for Real, or a Con?
22. Smashing Through the Looking Glass
23. Scholarly Detective Story VI, continued: The Army's "Inconsistent" Policy on Minorities
24. Zen, Then Not Zen
25. Scholarly Detective Story VII: The New Literary-Historical Synthesis
Part V. The Mysterious Zone
26. The Big Wait
27. My First Official Tournament as a Grown Man
28. Going Outside My Familiar Discomfort Zone
29. The Much-Needed Zen Master Doesn't Appear
Part VI. Some Provisional Answers
30. Scholarly Detective Story VIII: Postscript: Seeing the Vietnam Era in Historical Context
31. Seeing Myself in Historical Context, Military History Convention, Ogden, Utah
32. A Zen Master in Wrigleyville?
33. Playing Tennis against Pilots and Matadors
34. Sweeping Myself Clean
35. Jekyll and the Dragon
36. Coming Back to What We Love
Epilogue
Bibliography
Author's Note and Disclaimer
Prologue: June 26, 1984: Truth is the Widow
Part I. An Authentic Mystery
1. 21 Years Later: My Fathers' Ghosts
2. My Better Half
3. Scholarly Detective Story I: Noticing Anomalies in the Lit-Crit Paradigm
4. Guns, Guard Dogs, and Yoga
Part II. Pretty Ugly Rivalries
5. Midlife Athletic Crisis
6. Scholarly Detective Story II: Identifying the Literary Mysteries To Be Solved
7. Secondhand Existence
8. Scholarly Detective Story III: Finding Clues in the Literature
9. A Farewell to Love Handles
10. Meetings with Unbearable Men
11. Scholarly Detective Story IV: Discovering Primary-Source Historical Evidence (in My Wife's File Cabinet)
Part III. Fear and Doubting
12. The Spleen of Tennis
13. Early-Life Crisis, 1968, Age 8
14. Scholarship Lessons, 1983: Wednesdays with Michel (Foucault)
15. Professional Blunder, Berkeley, 1986.
16. Paralysis on the Court
Part IV. The Lost-Out Generation
17. Scholarly Detective Story V: Hypothesizing Historical Revision and Searching for Proof
18. "Hitter's Block"
19. Why I Didn't Die at Age 8
20. Scholarly Detective Story VI: Examining the Historical Revision: Analyzing Discrepancies between Accepted Histories and New Evidence
21. Is Zen for Real, or a Con?
22. Smashing Through the Looking Glass
23. Scholarly Detective Story VI, continued: The Army's "Inconsistent" Policy on Minorities
24. Zen, Then Not Zen
25. Scholarly Detective Story VII: The New Literary-Historical Synthesis
Part V. The Mysterious Zone
26. The Big Wait
27. My First Official Tournament as a Grown Man
28. Going Outside My Familiar Discomfort Zone
29. The Much-Needed Zen Master Doesn't Appear
Part VI. Some Provisional Answers
30. Scholarly Detective Story VIII: Postscript: Seeing the Vietnam Era in Historical Context
31. Seeing Myself in Historical Context, Military History Convention, Ogden, Utah
32. A Zen Master in Wrigleyville?
33. Playing Tennis against Pilots and Matadors
34. Sweeping Myself Clean
35. Jekyll and the Dragon
36. Coming Back to What We Love
Epilogue
Bibliography
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research; scholarship; tennis; amateur sports; Foucault; World War I; American war literature; Vietnam era; Vietnam protests; Hemingway; Fitzgerald; Faulkner; Lost Generation; military history; war and society; war and gender; academics; literature professors; epistemology; Zen
Acknowledgments
Author's Note and Disclaimer
Prologue: June 26, 1984: Truth is the Widow
Part I. An Authentic Mystery
1. 21 Years Later: My Fathers' Ghosts
2. My Better Half
3. Scholarly Detective Story I: Noticing Anomalies in the Lit-Crit Paradigm
4. Guns, Guard Dogs, and Yoga
Part II. Pretty Ugly Rivalries
5. Midlife Athletic Crisis
6. Scholarly Detective Story II: Identifying the Literary Mysteries To Be Solved
7. Secondhand Existence
8. Scholarly Detective Story III: Finding Clues in the Literature
9. A Farewell to Love Handles
10. Meetings with Unbearable Men
11. Scholarly Detective Story IV: Discovering Primary-Source Historical Evidence (in My Wife's File Cabinet)
Part III. Fear and Doubting
12. The Spleen of Tennis
13. Early-Life Crisis, 1968, Age 8
14. Scholarship Lessons, 1983: Wednesdays with Michel (Foucault)
15. Professional Blunder, Berkeley, 1986.
16. Paralysis on the Court
Part IV. The Lost-Out Generation
17. Scholarly Detective Story V: Hypothesizing Historical Revision and Searching for Proof
18. "Hitter's Block"
19. Why I Didn't Die at Age 8
20. Scholarly Detective Story VI: Examining the Historical Revision: Analyzing Discrepancies between Accepted Histories and New Evidence
21. Is Zen for Real, or a Con?
22. Smashing Through the Looking Glass
23. Scholarly Detective Story VI, continued: The Army's "Inconsistent" Policy on Minorities
24. Zen, Then Not Zen
25. Scholarly Detective Story VII: The New Literary-Historical Synthesis
Part V. The Mysterious Zone
26. The Big Wait
27. My First Official Tournament as a Grown Man
28. Going Outside My Familiar Discomfort Zone
29. The Much-Needed Zen Master Doesn't Appear
Part VI. Some Provisional Answers
30. Scholarly Detective Story VIII: Postscript: Seeing the Vietnam Era in Historical Context
31. Seeing Myself in Historical Context, Military History Convention, Ogden, Utah
32. A Zen Master in Wrigleyville?
33. Playing Tennis against Pilots and Matadors
34. Sweeping Myself Clean
35. Jekyll and the Dragon
36. Coming Back to What We Love
Epilogue
Bibliography
Author's Note and Disclaimer
Prologue: June 26, 1984: Truth is the Widow
Part I. An Authentic Mystery
1. 21 Years Later: My Fathers' Ghosts
2. My Better Half
3. Scholarly Detective Story I: Noticing Anomalies in the Lit-Crit Paradigm
4. Guns, Guard Dogs, and Yoga
Part II. Pretty Ugly Rivalries
5. Midlife Athletic Crisis
6. Scholarly Detective Story II: Identifying the Literary Mysteries To Be Solved
7. Secondhand Existence
8. Scholarly Detective Story III: Finding Clues in the Literature
9. A Farewell to Love Handles
10. Meetings with Unbearable Men
11. Scholarly Detective Story IV: Discovering Primary-Source Historical Evidence (in My Wife's File Cabinet)
Part III. Fear and Doubting
12. The Spleen of Tennis
13. Early-Life Crisis, 1968, Age 8
14. Scholarship Lessons, 1983: Wednesdays with Michel (Foucault)
15. Professional Blunder, Berkeley, 1986.
16. Paralysis on the Court
Part IV. The Lost-Out Generation
17. Scholarly Detective Story V: Hypothesizing Historical Revision and Searching for Proof
18. "Hitter's Block"
19. Why I Didn't Die at Age 8
20. Scholarly Detective Story VI: Examining the Historical Revision: Analyzing Discrepancies between Accepted Histories and New Evidence
21. Is Zen for Real, or a Con?
22. Smashing Through the Looking Glass
23. Scholarly Detective Story VI, continued: The Army's "Inconsistent" Policy on Minorities
24. Zen, Then Not Zen
25. Scholarly Detective Story VII: The New Literary-Historical Synthesis
Part V. The Mysterious Zone
26. The Big Wait
27. My First Official Tournament as a Grown Man
28. Going Outside My Familiar Discomfort Zone
29. The Much-Needed Zen Master Doesn't Appear
Part VI. Some Provisional Answers
30. Scholarly Detective Story VIII: Postscript: Seeing the Vietnam Era in Historical Context
31. Seeing Myself in Historical Context, Military History Convention, Ogden, Utah
32. A Zen Master in Wrigleyville?
33. Playing Tennis against Pilots and Matadors
34. Sweeping Myself Clean
35. Jekyll and the Dragon
36. Coming Back to What We Love
Epilogue
Bibliography
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