Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel write by Pierpaolo Antonello. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel write by Pierpaolo Antonello. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mimesis and Theory
Mimesis and Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis and Theory write by René Girard. This book was released on 2008. Mimesis and Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
René Girard's Mimetic Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook René Girard's Mimetic Theory write by Wolfgang Palaver. This book was released on 2013-01-01. René Girard's Mimetic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deceit, Desire, and the Novel write by René Girard. This book was released on 1976-04. Deceit, Desire, and the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the novel based on an altruistic hero who dies, through a description of five novelists.
