Table of Contents

Introduction      1

1. Liminality in Lilith      7
ROBERT A. COLLINS
2. Liminality and the Everyday in Lilith      15
TOM SHIPPEY
3. Lilith, Textuality, and the Rhetoric of Romance      21
MICHAEL MENDELSON
4. Myth, Mysticism, and Magic: Reading at the Close of Lilith      39
VERLYN FLIEGER
5. The Logic of Fantasy and the Crisis of Closure in Lilith      46
COLIN MANLOVE
6. The Demoness and the Grail: Deciphering Lilith      59
JEANNE MURRAY WALKER
7. A Fresh Look at Lilith’s Perplexing Dimensions      71
ROLLAND HEIN
8. Collins Agonistes; or, Why Did I Bother To?      83
ROGER C. SCHLOBIN
9. The Revelatory Potential of Lilith’s Immanent Eternity      85
LUCAS H. HARRIMAN
10. Frustrated Interpretation in Lilith      93
JOHN PENNINGTON
11. Liminality as Psychic Stage in Lilith      103
RODERICK MCGILLIS
12. Cosmic and Psychological Redemption in Lilith      111
BONNIE GAARDEN
13. Lilith as the Mystic’s Magnum Opus      128
ELIZABETH ROBINSON
14. Chiasmatic Christianity: Lilith’s Sense of an Ending      143
KELLY SEARSMITH
15. The (As Yet) Endless Ending of Lilith      161
DAVID M. MILLER

About the Contributors      177
Index      179