Publisher's Synopsis
Editor's Introduction The View from P?le Nord: Sartre, Beauvoir, and Girard on Mimesis, Embodiment, and Desire Martha J. Reineke Rebellion and the Sacred: Sacrifice in Camus's Rebel Brian Harding "Even now, now, very now": Mimesis's and Imitation's Temporalities JoÃo Cezar de Castro Rocha Sacrificial "As-If" and Avuncular Hilarity: Living by MÉconnaissance Wiel Eggen The Mimetic Sacred: Girard and Bataille Transcending Desire Jeffrey D. McNeil Sophie, Greta, Cuiyuan, and Feminist Desire: Stories by Ding Ling, Alice Munro, and Eileen Chang Yuhui Bao and Ian Dennis Men Becoming Gods in "Style": Gioia and Girard on Divinized Desire Joshua Hren Escalation to Academic Extremes? Revisiting Academic Rivalry in the MÖhler/Baur Debate Grant Kaplan The Myrmidon vs. the Abbess: How Contrasting Mechanisms to Resolve Mimetic Contagion in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Comedy of Errors Stand as a Warning Against the Rejection of Christianity in Favor of Resurgent Homeric Ethos Brian P. Quaranta SÉduire, C'est Tout: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the Struggle of Influence Paul Sharma Imitation, Violence, and Exchange: Girard and Mauss Per BjØrnar Grande.
