Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure. Rene Girard

1968 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-279
Author(s):  
Chloe Steel
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard

scholarly journals The influence of J.-P. Sartre’s philosophy on the mimetic theory of R. Girard

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Gafurov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard

Certainly Sartre had an enormous influence on the subsequent philosophical thought, primarily in France. Rene Girard did not ignore this thinker either. In this article we will look at the influence of Sartre’s philosophy on the formation of Rene Girard’s mimetic theory. Already in his early work, “Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure”, Rene Girard repeatedly refers to the work of Sartre, explaining how his work can be considered in the context of mimetic theory. Further, in an interview with Michel Treger in 1992, Girard controversially proposes to examine the existential-phenomenological constructions of Sartre by means of mimetic theory, putting forward his vision and critical view on overcoming the Cartesian dualism that Girard finds in Sartre’s philosophy. The author of the article considers the convergence of the mimetic theory of R. Girard with some provisions of the work by J.-P. Sartre, turning to one of the main philosophical works of J.-P. Sartre “Being and Nothingness”, which also influenced the early work of R. Girard. It should be noted that J.-P. Sartre does not offer a system describing the mechanisms of mimetic desire. But through the prism of mimetic theory we can see certain philosophical intuitions that reveal to us the nature of mimetic desires in the works of Sartre.

Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Walter A. Strauss ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
Yvonne Freccero
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

1967 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 487
Author(s):  
Robert L. Belknap ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Yvonne Freccero ◽  
Rene Girard
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
David G. Halliburton ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
Yvonne Freccero
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other

scholarly journals Scapegoating in ‘The Stranger’ By Albert Camus

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Diana-Eugenia Panait-Ioncică
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Stranger

Abstract The present paper intends to discuss the amount to which scapegoating (as understood by René Girard in ‘The Scapegoat’) can be applied to Camus’s novel ‘The Stranger’. While issues arise when we are trying to apply Girard’s definition of scapegoating to the famous novel by Camus, this paper shall try to prove that they are only apparent issues, and that the novel is a perfect illustration of Girard’s theory.

scholarly journals ‘Menzogna romantica’ e ‘sortilegio romanzesco’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piermario Vescovo
Keyword(s):  
War Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Post War

This contribution attempts to match the dimensions of the ‘menzogna and sortilegio’ of Elsa Morante’s novel, and above all its construction in relation to the novel of the bourgeois epic of the previous century, those of the ‘mensonge romantique’ and ‘verité romanesque’ of René Girard, and therefore of describe the geometries of mimetic desire that build the plot of this huge debut in European post-war literature.

Mimetic Desire in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot with Continual Reference to René Girard

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Denis Zhernokleyev
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Principal Character ◽  
Love Triangle

It is common to see Myshkin, the principal character of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, as a failed lover and a compassionate saintly figure, who gets entangled in a love triangle but cannot embody it. This paper challenges such a view and argues that Myshkin fully incarnates the violent dynamic of desire that governs the novel. With the help of René Girard’s notion of mimetic desire, the paper explores Myshkin’s relationship with Rogozhin as erotic rivalry. Instead of seeing the two characters as autonomous entities, it is suggested that they should be viewed as doubles, as two poles of the same consciousness. On this view, Myshkin’s compassion and Rogozhin’s lust become two different manifestations of the same desire, united by a conflict of interest, which drives the love triangle towards a violent resolution.

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel. René Girard

1967 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-54
Author(s):  
Ralph Harper
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard
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