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‘Who Is Afraid of Fairenesse or Wanton Ladies Appearing in Their Barenesse?’: Laughing at Female Desire in Early Modern English Reception of the Myth of the Trojan War☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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Overcoming the “referential nihilism” in the work of René Girard

Azafea: Revista de Filosofía, 2016
The “nihilism of reference” is a consequence of deconstruction developed by Jacques Derrida. The theory of mimetic desire made by the anthropologist René Girard arises from a double exercise in deconstructionism.
Desiderio PARRILLA MARTÍNEZ
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Reviews of recent publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1994
Paisley Livingston. Models of Desire: René Girard and the Psychology of Mimesis by Andrew J. McKenna Andrew J. McKenna. Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction by Servanne Woodward James F. Murphy.

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Singapore upon the Korea Strait? Cyberlibertarian Desires and Anxious Regulation in Busan's Blockchain Regulation Free Zone

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1892-1913, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines the intersection of Asia's blockchain industry and special economic zones (SEZs). SEZs have been promoted to localise blockchain technology by disparate actors from cyberlibertarian figures to Asian blockchain firms, national policymakers, and local politicians.
Jamie Doucette, Seung‐Ook Lee
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Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 715-730, July 2025.
Abstract This article explores male popular culture in Australia in the mid‐1940s, particularly men's magazines of the period, to illuminate aspects of the psycho‐sexual dimensions of Australian veterans returning to civil society. The sexual landscape of Australian society had undergone considerable transformation, especially through an increasing ...
Stephen Garton
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El pensamiento político ante la obra de René Girard: balance de un diálogo inconcluso

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica
Existe un profundo equívoco en cuanto a la exposición de las relaciones entre el pensamiento de René Girard y su relación con el ámbito de reflexión política. Nuestro autor, salta a la vista, no es un pensador político.
Domingo González Hernández
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René Girard's Revision and Misapprehension of Psychoanalysis

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT René Girard's theories of mimetic desire, religious sacrifice, and violence have been immensely provocative and influential. His ways of framing literary desire and conflict are fascinating, as they illustrate how desire and rivalry unleashed lead to violence and derangement.
Jerry S. Piven
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Rethinking the relation between human and nature: Insights from science fiction

Business and Society Review, Volume 130, Issue S1, Page S53-S67, Spring 2025.
Abstract Facing the accumulation of data that suggest near‐future dramatic changes in our way of life, current visions of transition are anchored in an incremental paradigm that excludes radical change. Using science fiction literature and cinema, this article aims to build such drastic change hypotheses and explore the political–ecological features of
Corinne Gendron, René Audet
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Resurrecting Tradition

Black Theology Papers Project
This paper reviews Kelly Brown Douglas’s Resurrecting Hope and brings it into conversation with certain themes in Catholic theology and with the theory of the scapegoat mechanism articulated by the French intellectual, René Girard.
Grant Kaplan
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René Girard, Don Quichotte et la comédie

Carnets, 2018
Cervantes’ Don Quixote, a parody of chivalry romances, centers on the misadventures of a protagonist who tries to align his desires and actions with those of his literary models.
Toufic El-Khoury
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