Introduction : paradigms of conflict and mediation in literary and cultural imagination / Ronald Bogue and Marcel Cornis-Pope
The melancholy object of consumption / Stanley Corngold
On wounding : windows, screens, and desire / Jerry Herron
The last days of Arnold Schwarzenegger / Albert Liu
The Jew as woman's symptom : Kathlyn Bigelow's conflictive representation of feminine power / Elisabeth Bronfen
Shattered hopes : on Blue velvet / Susan Derwin
Murder and mystery Mormon style : violence and mediation in American popular culture / Terryl Givens
Revolution : hope without future or future without hope / Tonglin Lu
What is mimetic desire? / Paisley Livingston
Murder as play : Conrad Aiken's King Coffin / Mihai Spariosu
Contest vs. mediation : models of discursive power in innovative fiction / Marcel Cornis-Pope.