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Mimesis, desire, and the novel René Girard and literary criticism / edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Heather Webb.
| Other author | Antonello, Pierpaolo. |
| Other author | Webb, Heather, 1976- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2015] |
| Description | liii, 303 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture. |
| Contents | 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 -- The desire to be you: the discourse of praise for the Roman emperor / Marco Formisano -- René Girard (Medieval) sanctity: a reappraisal / Bill Burgwinkle -- Dubbiosi disiri: Mimetic processing 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015930557 |
| ISBN | 9781611861655 (softcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1611861659 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |