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Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Carly Osborn
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-14 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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This book draws on the philosopher René Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody's The
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Pages: 361
Authors: René Girard
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-04-13 - Publisher: A&C Black

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René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. Violence and t
A Theatre of Envy
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Pages: 386
Authors: René Girard
Categories: Desire in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Gracewing Publishing

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In this groundbreaking work a foremost literary and cultural critic turns to the major figure in English literature William Shakespeare and proposes a dramatic
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Pages: 353
Authors: Francesco Pacifico
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-30 - Publisher: Melville House

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Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 2
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Authors: Scott Cowdell
Categories: Philosophy
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This collection of state of the art interpretations of the thought of René Girard follows on from the volume Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic