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Book SynopsisMimesis and Theory brings together twenty previously uncollected essays on literature and literary theory by one of the most important thinkers of the past thirty years.
Trade Review"[T]his collection spans the course of Girard's career and provides a concise way to gain some perspective on his legacy . . . One the whole, this volume confirms Girard's reputation as a first-rate literary critic, devoted to the close study of literary texts but avoiding the pitfalls of
l'art pour l'art formalism by asking extra-literary, essentially anthropological, questions of them, and emphasizing the insights and lessons that literature has to offer us in those matters that are of greatest import to us."—Eric Prieto,
SubStanceTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Editor's Note iii Editor's Introduction iii @toc2:1 History in Saint-John Perse 000 2 Val'ry and Stendhal 000 3 Classicism and Voltaire's Historiography 000 4 Stendhal and Tocqueville 000 5 Pride and Passion in the Contemporary Novel 000 6 Memoirs of a Dutiful Existentialist: Simone de Beauvoir 000 7 Marcel Proust 000 8 Marivaudage, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith 000 9 Formalism and Structuralism in Literature and the Human Sciences 000 10 Racine, Poet of Glory 000 11 Monsters and Demi-Gods in Hugo 000 12 Bastards and the Anti-Hero in Sartre 000 13 Critical Reflections on Literary Studies 000 14 Narcissism: The Freudian Myth Demystified by Proust 000 15 Theory and Its Terrors 000 16 Love and Hate in Ch'tien de Troyes' Yvain 000 17 Innovation and Repetition 000 18 Mimetic Desire in the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky 000 19 Conversion in Literature and Christianity 000 20 The Passionate Oxymoron in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 000 @toc4:Sources 000 Notes 000 Index 000
