Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by René Girard, ISBN-13: 978-0801818301

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Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by René Girard, ISBN-13: 978-0801818301

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• Publisher: ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press; n edition (April 1, 1976)
• Language: ‎ English
• 328 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9780801818301
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0801818301

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.

Table of Contents:

I “Triangular” Desire, 1

II Men Become Gods in the Eyes

of Each Other, 53

III The Metamorphosis of Desire, 83

IV Master and Slave, 96

V The Red and the Black, 113

VI Technical Problems in Stendhal,

Cervantes, and Flaubert, 139

VII The Hero’s Askesis, 153

VIII Masochism and Sadism, 176

IX The Worlds of Proust, 193

X Technical Problems in Proust

and Dostoyevsky, 229

XI The Dostoyevskian Apocalypse, 256

XII The Conclusion, 290

Index, 315

René Girard is a Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. Two of his books, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, which was also translated by Yvonne Freccero, and Violence and the Sacred, are available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

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