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The Girard Reader » Read Now
by Rene Girard, James G. Williams. 316 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

In one volume, an anthology of the seminal work of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.
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Violent Origins (Chap. One "Generative Scapegoating" by Rene Girard) » Read Now
by Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, Jonathan Z. Smith. 280 pgs.

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The Temple of Jesus: His Sacrificial Program within a Cultural History of Sacrifice (Chap. 2 "An Analysis of Sacrifice: The Systematic Approach of Rene Girard" » Read Now
by Bruce Chilton. 209 pgs.

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Shakespeare and the Question of Theory (Chap. 10 "Rene Girard") » Read Now
by Geoffrey Hartman, Patricia Parker. 338 pgs.

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Shylock ("To Entrap the Wisest" by Rene Girard begins on p. 291) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 330 pgs.

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The Chansons de Geste in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions ("Symmetrical Conflict: The Violence of Desire and the Desire for Violence" begins on p. 52) » Read Now
by Sarah Kay. 280 pgs.

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This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre. Critics have often dismissed the chansons de geste as coming before and being inferior to the new and distinctively literary achievement of romance. Sarah Kay draws on the most...
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This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre. Critics have often dismissed the chansons de geste as coming before and being inferior to the new and distinctively literary achievement of romance. Sarah Kay draws on the most up-to-date literary and feminist theory to show that the two genres in fact existed simultaneously, engaged in a productive and revealing dialogue. Each genre, moreover, illuminates the "political unconscious" of the other: those political conflicts and contradictions--particularly issues of gender--that the text attempts to evade and disguise.
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2000 Years and beyond: Faith, Identity, and the Common Era (Chap. 6 "The Mimetic Theory of Religion") » Read Now
by David Archard, Paul Gifford, Trevor A. Hart, Nigel Rapport. 227 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time - specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look backwards and forwards to explore what links us to the matrix of the Judaeo-Christian tradition from...
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2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time - specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look backwards and forwards to explore what links us to the matrix of the Judaeo-Christian tradition from which Western cultural identity has evolved.Their plural reflections raise searching questions about how we move from past to future - and about who 'we' are. What do the catastrophes of the twentieth century signify for hopes of progress? Can post - Enlightment humanism and its notion of human nature survive without faith? If the 'numinous magic global capitalism' is our own giant shadow cast abroad, does that shadow offer hope enough of a communal future? Has the modern, secularized West now outgrown its originating faith matrix?Often controversial and sometimes visionary, these seven new essays ask: how do we tell - and rewrite - the story of the Common Era? Introduced by Paul Gifford, and discussed in a lively dialogic conclusion, they add their distinctive voices to a debate of profound and urgent topicality.
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Royal and Ecclesiastical Rivalries in Bede's History, in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature » Read Now
by George Hardin Brown. 19 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library
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The First Stone, in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature » Read Now
by Rene Girard. 5 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library
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What's Guilt (or Deterrence) Got to Do with It? The Death Penalty, Ritual and Mimetic Violence, in William and Mary Law Review » Read Now
by Donald L. Beschle. 51 pgs.

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