This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics and offers an interpretation of some basic cultural problems of our time."

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

Literature & Fiction

Girard, Professor René

History & Criticism

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Violence and the Sacred

<p>This brilliant study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony.</p>

To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology

An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire -- and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: "The historical mutilation of mimesis ... was no mere oversight, no fortuitous 'error.' Real awareness of mimetic desire threatens the flattering delusion we entertain not only about ourselves as individuals but also about the nature and origin of that collective self we call our society."

<p>"[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal."--John Yoder, Religion and Literature.</p>

The Scapegoat

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Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

Violence and the Sacred

To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology

The Scapegoat