Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Theoretical Considerations
Jealousy and Novelistic Knowledge - Maria DiBattista
Desiring Proust: Girard against Deleuze - Alessia Ricciardi
Within and Beyond Mimetic Desire - Luca Di Blasi
On Girard’s Biblical Realism - Karen S. Feldman
Creative Renunciation: The Spiritual Heart of Deceit, Desire, and the Novel - Wolfgang Palaver
Part Two. Mimetic Hermeneutics in History
The Desire to Be You: The Discourse of Praise for the Roman Emperor - Marco Formisano
René Girard and (Medieval) Sanctity: A Reappraisal - Bill Burgwinkle
Dubbiosi Disiri: Mimetic Processes in Dante’s Comedy - Manuele Gragnolati and Heather Webb
For a Comparative Topography of Desire: Mimetic Theory and the World Map - Rosa Mucignat
Nobody’s Fault: Dickens, René Girard, and the Novel -David Quint
“Let Us Carve Him as a Feast Fit for the Gods”: Girard and Unjust Execution in Nineteenth-Century Narrative - Jan-Melissa Schramm
Dostoyevsky’s Metaphysical Theater: The Underground Man and the Masochist in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel and Resurrection from the Underground - Yue Zhuo
Deceit, Desire, Violence, and Death in the Short Stories of Georges Bernanos - Brian Sudlow
Mimetic Desire in Otherworldly Narratives - Laura Wittman
Desire, Deceit, and Defeat in the Work of Roberto Arlt - Jobst Welge
Recantation without Conversion: Desire, Mimesis, and the Paradox of Engagement in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio - Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Jonathan Franzen’s Novelistic Conversion - Trevor Cribben Merrill
Mimetic Desire and Monstrous Doubles in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones - Robert Buch
Appendix. Literature and Christianity: A Personal View - René Girard
Contributors
Index