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Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel Rene Girard and Literary Criticism

Title
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel [electronic resource] : Rene Girard and Literary Criticism / edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Heather Webb.
Publication
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Webb, Heather, 1976-
  • Antonello, Pierpaolo.
  • Project Muse.
Description
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
  • Girard, Rene, 1923-2015
  • Girard, Rene, 1923-2015 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Desire in literature
  • Mimesis in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • 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.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Webb, Heather, 1976-
Antonello, Pierpaolo.
Project Muse.
LCCN
2015930557
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