René Girard and Creative Mimesis - 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 and Creative Mimesis write by Vern Neufeld Redekop. This book was released on 2013-11-21. René Girard and Creative Mimesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive dimensions of mimetic phenomena without expanding on what they might be. Now, two decades later, this groundbreaking book systematically explores the positive side of mimetic theory in the context of the multi-faceted world of creativity. Several authors build on Adams’ insight that loving mimesis can be understood as desiring the subjectivity of the other, particularly when the other may be young or wounded. With highly nuanced arguments authors show how mimetic theory can be used to address child and adult development, including the growth of consciousness and a capacity to handle complexity. Mimetic theory is brought to bear on big questions about creativity in nature, evolutionary development, originality, and religious intrusion into politics.
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.
René Girard and Creative Reconciliation
René Girard and Creative Reconciliation - 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 and Creative Reconciliation write by Vern Neufeld Redekop. This book was released on 2014-01-09. René Girard and Creative Reconciliation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays, one not fully integrated in a formal way but showing a clear understanding of some of the challenges and possibilities for dealing with the deep divisions, enmity, hatred, and other effects of violence. By situating discourse about reconciliation within the context of Girardian thought, it becomes clear that—like Peter who vowed he would never deny Jesus but ended up doing it three times—any of us is susceptible to the siren call of angry resentment and retaliation. It is with a profound awareness of the power of violence that the emergence of mimetic discourse around reconciliation takes on particular urgency.
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.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - 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 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World write by René Girard. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
