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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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'Our Darker Purpose' : the calculus of desire in King Lear : a Girardian reading [PDF]

, 2006
Rene Girard has always seen in Shakespeare's work a supreme example of his mimetic theory applied with genius in a dramatic context. He sees in King Lear a kind of summa which brings to 'a sharp focus . ..
Caruana, Carmel
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Two Ways of Being Conscious: The Notion of Psychic Conversion [PDF]

, 2012
In this essay I will present an overview of what I have called psychic conversion. I will begin by narrating the birth of the idea, then will present a brief schematic history of its development and principal applications to date, and will conclude by ...
Doran, Robert
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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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‘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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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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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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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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"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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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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