{"product_id":"mimesis-and-theory-essays-on-literature-and-criticism-19532005-9780804781077","title":"Mimesis and Theory  Essays on Literature and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMimesis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 \u003ci\u003el'art pour l'art\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSubStance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Editor's Note\tiii  Editor's Introduction\tiii  @toc2:1\tHistory in Saint-John Perse\t000  2\tVal'ry and Stendhal\t000  3\tClassicism and Voltaire's Historiography\t000  4\tStendhal and Tocqueville\t000  5\tPride and Passion in the Contemporary Novel\t000  6\tMemoirs of a Dutiful Existentialist: Simone de Beauvoir\t000  7\tMarcel Proust\t000  8\tMarivaudage, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith\t000  9\tFormalism and Structuralism in Literature and the Human Sciences\t000  10\tRacine, Poet of Glory\t000  11\tMonsters and Demi-Gods in Hugo\t000  12\tBastards and the Anti-Hero in Sartre\t000  13\tCritical Reflections on Literary Studies\t000  14\tNarcissism: The Freudian Myth Demystified by Proust\t000  15\tTheory and Its Terrors\t000  16\tLove and Hate in Ch'tien de Troyes' Yvain\t000  17\tInnovation and Repetition\t000  18\tMimetic Desire in the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky\t000  19\tConversion in Literature and Christianity\t000  20\tThe Passionate Oxymoron in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet\t000  @toc4:Sources\t000  Notes\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405603053911,"sku":"9780804781077","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804781077.jpg?v=1730492967","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mimesis-and-theory-essays-on-literature-and-criticism-19532005-9780804781077","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}