Regenerative Anthropology in Fact, Fiction, and Prophecy: Jefferson, Douglass, Twain, Lincoln
This essay examines the explicit truth claims of certain canonical text of American literature, engaging the complementary insights of René Girard’s mimetic theory and Eric Gans’s generative anthropology as they apply to writings on slavery and the civil war that ensued over its continuation. Stylis...
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| Language: | English |
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2020
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Anthropoetics
Year: 2020, Volume: 26, Issue: 1 |
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Slavery
B Eric Gans B Twain B René Girard B Jefferson B Civil War B Douglass B generative anthropology B Faulkner B Lincoln B Mimetic Theory B Speech Acts |
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