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2021
This chapter explores whether mimetic theory is unique to Western tradition and whether it exists in Chinese critical discourse. It reexamines the widely accepted view that while mimesis is the foundation of Western aesthetic thought, expression is the dominant mode of representation in Chinese literary thought.
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This chapter explores whether mimetic theory is unique to Western tradition and whether it exists in Chinese critical discourse. It reexamines the widely accepted view that while mimesis is the foundation of Western aesthetic thought, expression is the dominant mode of representation in Chinese literary thought.
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2019
The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of René Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth [mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque].
Bubbio P, Fleming C
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The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of René Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth [mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque].
Bubbio P, Fleming C
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Mimetic Theory and Hermeneutics
2005The thought of René Girard has been object of much interest in the last few years, both in the "Continental" and in the "English-speaking" philosophical areas. Nevertheless, René Girard's thought is not always accepted in the academic circles. The main cause for this is that his theory is considered too "philosophical" in the Human Sciences Departments,
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Critiques of Girard’s Mimetic Theory
2017Girard was both a thinker whose work impinged on disciplines in the social sciences and an apologist for Christianity. Instead of keeping these two aspects separate, as academic decorum would have prescribed, he brought them together, arguing that his Christian anthropology explained the origin of cultural and religious systems and offered a purely ...
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Mimetic Theory and Self-criticism
2017Developing a capacity for self-criticism of and through the mimetic theory assumes a progression in four stages: first, distinguishing genuine self-criticism from insincere self-criticism for form’s sake alone; next, guarding against the contagion of a unanimous accusation that pushes the victim to agree with the crowd that is accusing him or her; only
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Mimetic Theory and the Katēchon
2017This article explores the resonance of the concept of the katēchon in apocalyptic political thought and in relation to Rene Girard’s mimetic theory. The katēchon has played a significant role in contemporary political theology. Like the scapegoat, the katēchon is a disturbing concept.
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Mimetic Theory, Sacrifice, and The Iliad?
Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 2016This essay strives to apply Girard’s mimetic theory to Homeric sacrifice scenes, poetic characterizations, and the plot of the Iliad. The theory is found to be wanting at the level of sacrifice scenes, and barely salient at the levels of poetic characterization and plot. On the whole, Girard’s theory of sacrifice is anachronistic for the Iliad, and the
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Western Mimeticism and Chinese Mimetic Theory
2021This chapter constructs a Chinese mimetic theory so as to lend further support to the conceptual inquiry into the universality of mimesis in Chap. 6. It does not engage in a conceptual inquiry into the necessary conditions for the rise of mimetic theory, since it has been dealt with in Chap.
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