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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Cauriensia, 2016 Indudablemente, puede localizarse en la obra de Girard el embrión de una antropo-logía y de una teoría política. Sus desarrollos concretos, en cambio, brillan por su ausencia.
Domingo González Hernández
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Seksualność Paskwaliny, czyli o specyfice poematu Samuela Twardowskiego raz jeszcze
Meluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura, 2019 The main purpose of the text is to analyze the problem of sexuality presented in the poem by Samuel Twardowskiof entitled “Nadobna Paskwalina” (“The beautiful Paskwalina”).
Noemi Szafrańska
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Gandhi’s Militant Nonviolence in the Light of Girard’s Mimetic Anthropology
Religions, 2021 Nuclear rivalry, as well as terrorism and the war against terror, exemplify the dangerous escalation of violence that is threatening our world. Gandhi’s militant nonviolence offers a possible alternative that avoids a complacent indifference toward ...
Wolfgang Palaver
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Pseudoscience and the Claim of Practical Utility: The Case of Thomas Erikson's Surrounded by Idiots
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that, by definition, pseudoscientists must assert that their theories are scientific or represent the best available knowledge. However, in business consultation and self‐help literature, pseudoscientists do not often make such strong claims. Instead, they commonly appeal to the practical utility of their theories.
Kaisa Luoma, Ilmari Hirvonen
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Signótica, 2005 This essay examines Stephen Crane’s novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Prussian Officer”, in light of Rene Girard’s notion of mimetic desire.
JOSÉ SANTOS
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"Me pare nu film" [It Looks Like a Movie]. High and Low Tragedy
Between, 2017 Un confronto tra la rinascita medievale della tragedia e alcune esperienze della contemporaneità, prima e dopo dell'area cronologica in cui essa diviene un "genere letterario" normato, prova a rilevare alcuni elementi caratterizzanti, prendendo come ...
Piermario Vescovo
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CRISE MIMÉTICA E VÍTIMA SACRIFICIAL. CONTRIBUIÇÃO DE RENÉ GIRARD PARA AS TEORIAS DA RELIGIÃO [PDF]
Estudos Teológicos, 2019 The subject of the relationship between religion and violence, although long discussed, tends to reify in two extreme positions. On the one hand, religion is understood as a possible articulator of the promotion of peace and harmony. At the other extreme,
Frederico Pieper
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Teoría mimética y Teología en la obra de René Girard
Carthaginensia, 2018 En el presente artículo desarrollamos la polémica entre René Girard y sus discípulos en relación las implicaciones teológicas de la teoría mimética. Se exponen las tesis fundamentales que René Girard utiliza a favor de estas conclusiones, frente a las ...
Desiderio Parrilla Martínez
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