"Deceit, desire, and the novel" fifty years later - the religious dimension: an introduction to the forum
Marking the golden jubilee of the publication in 1961 of René Girard's acclaimed first book, Mensonge romantique et vérité Romanesque (Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure), nine scholars from Austria, France, England, and the United States discuss the religious d...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Notre Dame
2011
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Religion & literature
Year: 2011, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 136-143 |
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| Summary: | Marking the golden jubilee of the publication in 1961 of René Girard's acclaimed first book, Mensonge romantique et vérité Romanesque (Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure), nine scholars from Austria, France, England, and the United States discuss the religious dimension of that work in a forum of short essays. They highlight the complex relationship between and among Girard's idea of "novelistic conversion," his personal experience of religious conversion in 1959, and the question of religious faith in the lives and writings of the novelists Girard examines. Contributors to the forum trace the philosophical sources of Girard's key insights and extend their applications. Discerning in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel the sacrificial rudiments of Girard's mimetic theory, they link his early literary criticism to his later anthropological writings on the scapegoat. Finally, they show that his fully articulated theory can be brought to bear critically upon Girard's own interpretive practice, simultaneously correcting and confirming it. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
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