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Almost from its very beginnings mimetology has looked to ancient Greece for its proof texts. For both René Girard's hypotheses surrounding the ethical and ethnological implications of mimetic desire and Eric Gans's identification of the part played by mimetic resentment in ...

Influential recent studies have shown that the binary opposition Lessing attempted to draw in Laokoon between painting and poetry is deeply problematic. But the distinction between the two arts tends to collapse not because Lessing was forced to choose between competing ...

One of the New Testament's most memorable stories is found in John 7: 53-8: 11, the haunting and dramatic pericope de adultera, or as it is perhaps better known, the story at the center of which stands the famous saying" Let him who is without sin among you be the ...

Which of William Blake's “Two Contrary States of the Human Soul,” innocence and experience, is more psychologically and philosophically complex? This essay examines the subtly melancholic tone that suffuses Blake's Songs of Innocence through the prism of ...

Thirty-five years have passed since an English vicar half-seriously blessed his nation's obsession with a music group called the Beatles by requesting that the quartet record" O Come All Ye Faithful, Yeah Yeah Yeah" for his Christmas congregation (Norman 182). ...

Near the beginning of Book II of Hyperion (1818-1819), John Keats's uncompleted first attempt to retell in blank verse the Greek myth of the overthrow of the Titans by the Olympian gods, the vanquished demigods, nursing their wounds in a" covert drear," are described ...

... But there was an added attraction: under the influence of both Percy and McPherson, British ballad collection around the turn of the century focused on the border counties of northern England and southern Scotland, the cherished haunts of Wordsworth's native district. ...

To illustrate the" extraordinarily slow growth" of John Keats's readership through the middle of the nineteenth century, in his 1917 biography of the poet Sir Sidney Colvin cites a poignant statistic: in the twenty or so years between the death of Byron and Tennyson's ...

... This explains why Ali felt he needed to pummel and taunt Ernie Terrell: in refusing to address him by his "divine" name, Terrell was preventing him from partaking in the full share of divine enjoyment to which Ali felt his Islamic ... Ali, Muhammad, with Hana Ali and Howard Bingham ...

Near the end of a 1978 interview that appeared in Diacritics, René Girard was asked to comment on several schools of" modern literary criticism," a subject toward which in general, the interviewer acknowledged, Girard had in the past displayed" a relatively antagonistic ...

Generative Anthropology strives for a parsimonious understanding of the human, and the simplicity, singularity, and minimality of the originary hypothesis and its derivative heuristic, originary analysis, grant GA an unmatched power to explain the essential dimensions of ...

[John Lennon] was a countercultural revolutionary, and the government takes that kind of shit really seriously historically. He was dangerous to the government. If he had said," Bomb the White House tomorrow," there would have been ten thousand people who would have ...