Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure Tapa blanda - 1976

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The Johns Hopkins University Press, April 1976. Paper Back. New. Do we choose our desires? To put a finer point on it, from where, or whom, do we borrow the desires we claim as our own? The French literary critic, historian and philosopher René Girard suggests--drawing upon a long line of mimetic theory including Plato, Aristotle, Coleridge, Freud, and Auerbach--that we do not experience desire spontaneously. We imitate and borrow, more often unconsciously than not. Girard terms this phenomenon the 'triangular desire.' Between the subject (doing the desiring) and the object (of that desire) is a mediator 'radiating toward both the subject and the object.' The purpose and limitations of this geometry, write Girard, always 'allude to the mystery, transparent yet opaque, of human relations.' <p><p> His analysis of the novel as a form encompasses far more than literary criticism, rendering an incisive critique of individualism and penetrating the… Leer más

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