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Mimesis, desire, and the novel : Rene Girard and literary criticism /

Fifty years after its publication in English, Ren ̌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 no...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Antonello, Pierpaolo (Editor ), Webb, Heather (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2015.
Colección:Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Theoretical Considerations; Jealousy and Novelistic Knowledge
  • Maria DiBattista; Desiring Proust: Girard against Deleuze
  • Alessia Ricciardi; Within and Beyond Mimetic Desire
  • Luca Di Blasi; On Girard's Biblical Realism
  • Karen S. Feldman; Creative Renunciation: The Spiritual Heart of Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
  • Wolfgang Palaver; Part Two. Mimetic Hermeneutics in History; The Desire to Be You: The Discourse of Praise for the Roman Emperor
  • Marco Formisano.
  • René Girard and (Medieval) Sanctity: A Reappraisal
  • Bill BurgwinkleDubbiosi Disiri: Mimetic Processes in Dante's Comedy
  • Manuele Gragnolati and Heather Webb; For a Comparative Topography of Desire: Mimetic Theory and the World Map
  • Rosa Mucignat; Nobody's Fault: Dickens, René Girard, and the Novel -David Quint; "Let Us Carve Him as a Feast Fit for the Gods": Girard and Unjust Execution in Nineteenth-Century Narrative
  • Jan-Melissa Schramm.
  • Dostoyevsky's Metaphysical Theater: The Underground Man and the Masochist in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel and Resurrection from the Underground
  • Yue ZhuoDeceit, Desire, Violence, and Death in the Short Stories of Georges Bernanos
  • Brian Sudlow; Mimetic Desire in Otherworldly Narratives
  • Laura Wittman; Desire, Deceit, and Defeat in the Work of Roberto Arlt
  • Jobst Welge; Recantation without Conversion: Desire, Mimesis, and the Paradox of Engagement in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Petrolio
  • Christoph F.E. Holzhey; Jonathan Franzen's Novelistic Conversion
  • Trevor Cribben Merrill.
  • Mimetic Desire and Monstrous Doubles in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
  • Robert BuchAppendix. Literature and Christianity: A Personal View
  • René Girard; Contributors; Index.