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

By René Girard , Yvonne Freccero (trans.)

Book information

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
1965
ISBN
0801818303, 9780801818301
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3442721 bytes)
Pages
329\331
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-03-25 22:06:02

Description

Through a close reading of five major novelists -- Cervantes, Stendhal, Flaubert, Proust, and Dostoyevsky -- René Girard attempts to define the essence of a certain type of novel which he calls the novel of mediated desire. The 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 in relation to his central theme, Girard goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics and offers an interpretation of some basic cultural problems of our time.

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