Dostoyevsky’s Metaphysical Theater: The Underground Man and the Masochist in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel and Resurrection from the Underground
Among the authors studied by René Girard in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel , Dostoyevsky represents the most "serious" case. In Dostoyevsky’s universe, hatred is so intense that it explodes, leading to contradictory feelings that go beyond the conscious grasp of characters themselves. Every...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| 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
Year: 2015, Pages: 175-188 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Desire
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
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| Summary: | Among the authors studied by René Girard in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel , Dostoyevsky represents the most "serious" case. In Dostoyevsky’s universe, hatred is so intense that it explodes, leading to contradictory feelings that go beyond the conscious grasp of characters themselves. Everything seems to be contaminated, not only the public and political life as in the novels of Stendhal, the secret private life as in the world of Proust, but also family and the intimate circle of individuals. In Dostoyevsky, the "corrosive disease" of the internal mediation is more diff use; it exerts its dissolving power at every level |
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| ISBN: | 9781609174521 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Mimesis, desire, and the novel
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