Mimesis, desire, and the novel: Rene Girard and Literary Criticism
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 no...
| Résumé: | 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 genera |
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| Description: | "This book gathers essays that were developed from a selection of papers presendted at a series of conferences held in 2011" (Acknowledgments) |
| Description matérielle: | liii, 303 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61186-165-5 |
