http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/ren%C3%A9-girard The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/shakespearean-countries <p>Perhaps the best way of outlining a brief definition of what I propose to call <i>Shakespearean countries</i> is resorting to V. S. Naipaul’s <i>The Mimic Men</i>, whose title already suggests a Girardian reading of the work of the Nobel Prize.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/shakespearean-countries">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/shakespearean-countries#comments Latin Americ a Mimetic Theory René Girard William Shakespeare http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1423 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:17:56 -0700 João Cezar de Castro Rocha 1423 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/mimetic-theory-and-cannibalism <p>There is an uncanny and even fascinating relationship between mimetic theory and the topic of cannibalism. In one of his most influential books, <i>La Violence et le sacré</i> (1972), when René Girard has to produce an authentic tour de force in order to prove the “unity of all rites,” he resorts to ritual cannibalism.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/mimetic-theory-and-cannibalism">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/mimetic-theory-and-cannibalism#comments Cultural Cannibalism Mimetic Theory Oswald de Andrade René Girard http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1418 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:19:16 -0800 João Cezar de Castro Rocha 1418 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/towards-poetics-of-emulation <p>In the work of the most distinguished Latin American authors there is a disquieting circumstance, namely, the virtual omnipresence of a particular semantic field centered upon the concepts of <i>copy</i>, <i>imitation</i>, <i>emulation</i>, <i>plagiarism, and</i> <i>influence</i>.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/towards-poetics-of-emulation">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/towards-poetics-of-emulation#comments Emulation Latin American Culture Latin American literature Mimesis Mimetic Theory René Girard http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1386 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:02:36 -0800 João Cezar de Castro Rocha 1386 at http://arcade.stanford.edu