Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

1967 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 487
Author(s):  
Robert L. Belknap ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Yvonne Freccero ◽  
Rene Girard
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other

Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Walter A. Strauss ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
Yvonne Freccero
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
David G. Halliburton ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
Yvonne Freccero
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other

scholarly journals The influence of J.-P. Sartre’s philosophy on the mimetic theory of R. Girard

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Gafurov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard

Certainly Sartre had an enormous influence on the subsequent philosophical thought, primarily in France. Rene Girard did not ignore this thinker either. In this article we will look at the influence of Sartre’s philosophy on the formation of Rene Girard’s mimetic theory. Already in his early work, “Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure”, Rene Girard repeatedly refers to the work of Sartre, explaining how his work can be considered in the context of mimetic theory. Further, in an interview with Michel Treger in 1992, Girard controversially proposes to examine the existential-phenomenological constructions of Sartre by means of mimetic theory, putting forward his vision and critical view on overcoming the Cartesian dualism that Girard finds in Sartre’s philosophy. The author of the article considers the convergence of the mimetic theory of R. Girard with some provisions of the work by J.-P. Sartre, turning to one of the main philosophical works of J.-P. Sartre “Being and Nothingness”, which also influenced the early work of R. Girard. It should be noted that J.-P. Sartre does not offer a system describing the mechanisms of mimetic desire. But through the prism of mimetic theory we can see certain philosophical intuitions that reveal to us the nature of mimetic desires in the works of Sartre.

scholarly journals Othering and Selfing: Reading Gender Hierarchies and Social Categories in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Soumission

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wening Udasmoro
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
French Society ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Gender Hierarchies

In literature, questions of the self and the other are frequently presented. The identity politics that gained prominence after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 has occupied considerable space in this debate throughout the globe, including in France. One example of a novel dealing with the self and other is Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015). This article attempts to explore the processes of selfing and othering in this work. The politics of identity that seems to present Muslims and Islam as the other and French as the self is also extended to other identities and aspects involved in the novel. This article attempts to show, first, how the French author Houellebecq positions the self and other in Soumission; second, the type of self and other the novel focuses on; and third, how its selfing and othering processes reveal the gender hierarchy and social categorization of French society. It finds that the novel presents a hierarchy in its narrative through which characters are positioned based on their gender and sexual orientation, as well as their age and ethnic heritage.

scholarly journals British and Indian Cultural Acculturation Study of Literary Anthropology in White Mughals Novel by William Dalrymple

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-376
Author(s):  
Dyah Kristyowati
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Local Traditions

The study of literary anthropology examines the literary structure in novels, short stories, poems, plays, and, folklore then linked to the concept or context of socio-cultural situations. This research discusses the acculturation of British and Indian cultures in the novel White Mughal. The results of the study found 4 cultural acculturations of British and Indian cultures such as the acculturation of local traditions, buildings, how to dress, and mixed marriages. The backgrounds of cultural acculturation in the novel are economic factors and political factors. This research is library research. The methods used in this research as well as other literary anthropological research focus on cultural acculturation and the factors behind cultural acculturation in this novel.

Existential–Humanistic and Relational Psychotherapy During COVID-19 With Patients With Preexisting Medical Conditions

2020 ◽  
pp. 002216782097389
Author(s):  
Robert M. Gordon ◽  
Jacqueline Fine Dahan ◽  
Joanna B. Wolfson ◽  
Erin Fults ◽  
Yuen Shan Christine Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Medical Conditions ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Relational Psychotherapy ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Ways Of Being

Unexpected traumatic events, including life-threatening medical conditions, brain injuries, and pandemics, can be catalysts for patients and clinicians to consider existential issues, including meaning in life. The existential–humanistic and relational perspectives on therapeutic interventions emphasize creating meaning, taking responsibility for one’s own life and self-narratives, choosing and actualizing ways of being in the world that are consistent with values, and expanding the capacity for agency, commitment, and action. Myriad factors have made the COVID-19 pandemic upsetting and potentially traumatic for individuals, including the novel experience of self and other as possibly infectious and dangerous, a sense that anyone is vulnerable, and protracted uncertainty about the duration of the crisis and its consequences. The vignettes included in this article explore risk and reliance factors relevant to patients with preexisting medical conditions during COVID-19 and highlight the benefits of exploring values, priorities, and assumptions, asking open-ended questions about meaning in life and posttraumatic growth, learning for each emotion, and interpretation of dreams. The existential–humanistic and relational approaches offer unique insights into how practitioners might help their patients to reflect on the unanticipated changes and anxieties ignited by COVID-19, while reinforcing the potential to live with greater purpose and intention.

scholarly journals Fracture: The reception of the 'other' author in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michalia Arathimos
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Individual

The fracturing of cultural identity is a common trope in postcolonial literatures. Traditional binaries of 'self' and 'other' are now complicated by cultural hybridities that reflect the intersectionality of migrant identities, indigeneity and the postcolonial national 'self'. Where the binaries 'self' and 'other' do not hold, creative forms like the novel can go some way towards exploring hybrid and 'other' experiences, both as a reinscribing and reimagining of the centre, and as a complex 'writing back'. This thesis investigates the complex positioning of the hybrid or double-cultured individual in Aotearoa in the last forty years. While postcolonial models have been used to expose the exoticisation of the 'other' in fictional texts, Part One of this thesis goes a step further by applying these models to real authors and interrogating their representations as static objects/products in the collective 'text' of media items written about them. Shifts in 'our' national literary identity can be traced in changes in responses to 'other' authors over time. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the first part of this thesis proves that there are differences in the media‟s portrayal of six Māori and 'other' ethnic authors: Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Kapka Kassabova, Tusiata Avia, Karlo Mila and Cliff Fell, beginning with the 1972 publication of Ihimaera‟s Pounamu Pounamu and ending in 2009 with Tusiata Avia‟s Bloodclot. Part One of this thesis mixes media studies, postcolonial literary analysis, and cultural theory, and references the work of Ghassan Hage, Graham Huggan, Margery Fee, Patrick Evans, Mark Williams, and Simone Drichel. Part Two of this thesis is comprised of a novel, Fracture. While Part One constitutes an investigation of the positioning of the 'other' author, Part Two is a creative exploration of two double-cultured and dispossessed indigenous characters' lived experience. The novel follows a Greek-New Zealand woman and a Māori man who go to a rural pā to protest fracking, or hydraulic fracturing. While the first part of the thesis explores the positioning of the „other‟ outside of the white self, the novel aims to portray the effects of such 'othering,' on the individual and demonstrate how the historical/political event can be a real experiential locale for the 'other'.

scholarly journals Fracture: The reception of the 'other' author in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michalia Arathimos
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Literary Identity ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Individual

<p>The fracturing of cultural identity is a common trope in postcolonial literatures. Traditional binaries of 'self' and 'other' are now complicated by cultural hybridities that reflect the intersectionality of migrant identities, indigeneity and the postcolonial national 'self'. Where the binaries 'self' and 'other' do not hold, creative forms like the novel can go some way towards exploring hybrid and 'other' experiences, both as a reinscribing and reimagining of the centre, and as a complex 'writing back'. This thesis investigates the complex positioning of the hybrid or double-cultured individual in Aotearoa in the last forty years. While postcolonial models have been used to expose the exoticisation of the 'other' in fictional texts, Part One of this thesis goes a step further by applying these models to real authors and interrogating their representations as static objects/products in the collective 'text' of media items written about them. Shifts in 'our' national literary identity can be traced in changes in responses to 'other' authors over time. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the first part of this thesis proves that there are differences in the media‟s portrayal of six Māori and 'other' ethnic authors: Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Kapka Kassabova, Tusiata Avia, Karlo Mila and Cliff Fell, beginning with the 1972 publication of Ihimaera‟s Pounamu Pounamu and ending in 2009 with Tusiata Avia‟s Bloodclot. Part One of this thesis mixes media studies, postcolonial literary analysis, and cultural theory, and references the work of Ghassan Hage, Graham Huggan, Margery Fee, Patrick Evans, Mark Williams, and Simone Drichel. Part Two of this thesis is comprised of a novel, Fracture. While Part One constitutes an investigation of the positioning of the 'other' author, Part Two is a creative exploration of two double-cultured and dispossessed indigenous characters' lived experience. The novel follows a Greek-New Zealand woman and a Māori man who go to a rural pā to protest fracking, or hydraulic fracturing. While the first part of the thesis explores the positioning of the „other‟ outside of the white self, the novel aims to portray the effects of such 'othering,' on the individual and demonstrate how the historical/political event can be a real experiential locale for the 'other'.</p>

All That Is Solid Turns into Steam

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-373
Author(s):  
Deborah Shapple Spillman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
The Novel ◽  
General Will ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Ludwig Feuerbach ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Mill On The Floss ◽  
Comparative Structure ◽  
Affective Relations

Deborah Shapple Spillman, “All That Is Solid Turns into Steam: Sublimation and Sympathy in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss” (pp. 338–373) This essay argues that steam and its gaseous properties in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1861) represent capital’s increasing abstraction in the nineteenth century that threatened to disrupt economic and affective relations between people, property, and places associated with the past while nevertheless introducing new modes of circulation and more diffusive opportunities for sympathetic connection. The novel’s return to an earlier stage in the development of capital places the 1830s of the story in dialogue with the 1860s of its narration, while inviting readers to compare the values of this earlier period to those of their own. Considering this comparative structure in relation to nineteenth-century ethnography and its interlocutors—including Auguste Comte, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Karl Marx—I read Edward Tulliver’s primitive materialism and the Dodson sisters’ fetishism as both humorous reactions and more earnest forms of resistance to this increasing abstraction. Eliot ultimately turns toward the figurative possibilities of sublimation as a way to bridge the concrete and the abstract, the particular and the general, will and affect, self and other. Sublimation—not liquidation—therefore serves as the more apt metaphor for sympathy in the novel.

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