Deceit Desire And The Novel
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Deceit Desire and the Novel
Author | : René Girard |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1976-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0801818303 |
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Examines the novel based on an altruistic hero who dies, through a description of five novelists.
Mimesis Desire and the Novel
Author | : Pierpaolo Antonello,Heather Webb |
Publsiher | : Michigan State University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611861659 |
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Fifty years after its publication in English, René Girard’s Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and sometimes irritate, literary scholars. It has become one of the great classics of literary criticism, and the notion of triangular desire is now part of the theoretical parlance among critics and students. It also represents the genetic starting point for what has become one of the most encompassing, challenging, and far-reaching theories conceived in the humanities in the last century: mimetic theory. This book provides a forum for new generations of scholars and critics to reassess, challenge, and expand the theoretical and hermeneutical reach of key issues brought forward by Girard’s book, including literary knowledge, realism and representation, imitation and the anxiety of influence, metaphysical desire, deviated transcendence, literature and religious experience, individualism and modernity, and death and resurrection. It also provides a more extensive and detailed historical understanding of the representation of desire, imitation, and rivalry within European and world literature, from Dante to Proust and from Dickens to Jonathan Littell.
Violence and the Sacred
Author | : René Girard |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2005-04-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780826477187 |
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René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. Violence and the Sacred is Girard's brilliant study of human evil. Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory>
Ren Girard s Mimetic Theory
Author | : Wolfgang Palaver |
Publsiher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781609173654 |
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A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from literature and philosophy. This book also offers an overview of René Girard’s life and work, showing how much mimetic theory results from existential and spiritual insights into one’s own mimetic entanglements. Furthermore it examines the broader implications of Girard’s theories, from the mimetic aspect of sovereignty and wars to the relationship between the scapegoat mechanism and the question of capital punishment. Mimetic theory is placed within the context of current cultural and political debates like the relationship between religion and modernity, terrorism, the death penalty, and gender issues. Drawing textual examples from European literature (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kleist, Stendhal, Storm, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Proust) and philosophy (Plato, Camus, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Vattimo), Palaver uses mimetic theory to explore the themes they present. A highly accessible book, this text is complemented by bibliographical references to Girard’s widespread work and secondary literature on mimetic theory and its applications, comprising a valuable bibliographical archive that provides the reader with an overview of the development and discussion of mimetic theory until the present day.
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Author | : Ren Girard |
Publsiher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781608331581 |
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Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map of human behavior, and sees Jesus Christ as the turning point leading to new life. The title echoes Jesus' words: "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven". Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. A new community, God's nonviolent kingdom, is being realized -- even now.
Modern Love
Author | : Daniel Jones |
Publsiher | : Broadway Books |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307351043 |
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A compilation of fifty essays from the popular "Modern Love" column in "The New York Times" explores the intricacies and complications of negotiating love and loss in the twenty-first century.
Mimesis and Theory
Author | : René Girard,Robert Doran |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780804755801 |
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Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty previously uncollected essays on literature and literary theory by one of the most important thinkers of the past thirty years.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Author | : René Girard,Jean-Michel Oughourlian,Guy Lefort |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780826468536 |
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Presenting an original global theory of culture, Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. His vision is a challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis. Rene Gerard is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University, USA.