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- 1 online resource (liii, 303 pages )
- Series Statement
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel (Online)
- Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Description based on print version record.
- 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 -- Rene 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, Rene 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 / Rene Girard.
- OCLC
- ssj0001546420
- Title
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel [electronic resource] : Rene Girard and Literary Criticism / edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Heather Webb.
- Imprint
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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- Added Author
Webb, Heather, 1976-
Antonello, Pierpaolo.
Project Muse.
- LCCN
2015930557