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Mimesis and Theory - Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005 (Paperback): Rene Girard

Mimesis and Theory - Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005 (Paperback)

Rene Girard; Edited by Robert Doran

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

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"Mimesis and Theory" brings together twenty of Rene Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, "Deceit, Desire, and the Novel," have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies. Spanning over fifty years of critical production, this anthology offers unique insights into the origin, development, and expansion of Girard's "mimetic theory"--a groundbreaking account of human interaction and of the genesis of cultural forms.
The essays run the gamut of Western literary culture, from Racine and Shakespeare to the existentialist writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. The authors who have most influenced Girard--Stendhal, Proust, and Dostoevsky--receive extended treatment, and Girard's observations on the changing landscape of literary studies are chronicled in several essays devoted to psychoanalysis, formalism, structuralism, and post-structuralism.
Though at times overshadowed by his work in religious and cultural anthropology, Girard's work in the area of literary studies has been the wellspring of his thought. All of the essays in this volume develop the idea that the greatest authors are also the greatest students of human nature, for their artistic intuitions are generally more penetrating than the analyses of the philosophers or the social scientists. Girard does not offer us a theory of literature but literature as theory.

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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date: December 2011
First published: 2012
Authors: Rene Girard
Editors: Robert Doran
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-8107-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN: 0-8047-8107-9
Barcode: 9780804781077

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