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Mimesis and theory : essays on literature and criticism, 1953-2005

This text brings together 20 of René Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literature theory, which along with his classic, 'Deceit, Desire, and the Novel', have left an indelible mark on the field of literary and cultural studies
Print Book, English, 2008
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxvi, 310 pages ; 24 cm.
9780804755801, 9780804781077, 0804755809, 0804781079
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History in Saint-John Perse
Valéry and Stendhal
Classicism and Voltaire's historiography
Pride and passion in the contemporary novel
Stendhal and Tocqueville
Memoirs of a dutiful existentialist : Simone de Beauvoir
Marcel Proust
Marivaudage, hypocrisy, and bad faith
Formalism and structuralism in literature and the human sciences
Racine, poet of glory
Monsters and demigods in Hugo
Bastards and the antihero in Sartre
Critical reflections on literary studies
Narcissism : the Freudian myth demythified by Proust
Theory and its terrors
Love and hate in Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain
Innovation and repetition
Mimetic desire in the underground : Feodor Dostoevsky
Conversion in literature and Christianity
The passionate oxymoron in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
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