On Girard’s Biblical Realism
René Girard’s studies of scapegoating, ritual, and sacrifice claim that Judeo-Christian Scripture demystifies, or reveals to us fully, the violent foundations of human institutions and the centrality of victimage in our history, psychology, and social organization. Although this thesis entails relig...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Mimesis, desire, and the novel
Année: 2015, Pages: 55-68 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Résumé: | René Girard’s studies of scapegoating, ritual, and sacrifice claim that Judeo-Christian Scripture demystifies, or reveals to us fully, the violent foundations of human institutions and the centrality of victimage in our history, psychology, and social organization. Although this thesis entails religious and anthropological considerations, it also evokes some of the broadest questions that literary scholars face—namely regarding what a book can do, how reading and criticism operate in the world, and what they have to do with positive transformations of human life on the largest scale. In the following pages I would like to revisit the intersection of Girard’s |
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| ISBN: | 9781609174521 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Mimesis, desire, and the novel
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