Mimesis, desire, and the novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism
Intro -- 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 -- O...
| Summary: | Intro -- 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 Burgwinkle -- Dubbiosi 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 Zhuo -- Deceit, 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 Buch -- Appendix. Literature and Christianity: A Personal View - René Girard -- Contributors -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (358 p) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61186-165-5 |