Autore	Dumouchel Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa	East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (406 p.)
Disciplina	616.9362
Collana	Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
Soggetto topico	Mimesis in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-60917-417-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. On Economy and Economics""; ""The Ambivalence of Scarcity""; ""Indifference and Envy: Girard and the Anthropological Analysis of Modern Economy""; ""A Mimetic Rereading of Helmut Schoeckâ€?s Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour""; ""Homo mimeticus as an Economic Agent""; ""Part 2. On Mimetic Theory""; ""Mimetism and Autonomy""; ""Violence and Nonviolence""; ""Differences and Paradoxes: Reflections on Love and Violence in Girardâ€?s Work""; ""Creation and Conversion in Girard""; ""Mimetic Theory: Concepts and Models""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465480103321

Autore	Veitch Jonathan
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina	813/.52
Collana	The Wisconsin project on American writers
Soggetto topico	Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century National characteristics, American, in literature Surrealism (Literature) - United States Depressions in literature Economics in literature Mimesis in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-42416-5 9786612424168 0-299-15703-2 0-585-07187-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455317603321

Autore	Veitch Jonathan
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina	813/.52
Collana	The Wisconsin project on American writers
Soggetto topico	Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century National characteristics, American, in literature Surrealism (Literature) - United States Depressions in literature Economics in literature Mimesis in literature
ISBN	1-282-42416-5 9786612424168 0-299-15703-2 0-585-07187-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Who Can We Shoot? The Crisis of Representation in the 1930s -- PART I -- 1. American Superrealism -- 2. Euclid's Asshole: The Dream Life of Balsa Snell -- PART II -- 3. "Lousy with Pure / Reeking with Stark": Contact -- 4. The People Talk: Miss Lonelyhearts -- 5. The Folklore of Capitalism: A Cool Million -- 6. The Cliches Are Having a Ball: The Day of the Locust -- Postscript: Madonna's Bustier -- or "The Burning of Los Angeles -- Notes -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910817038003321

Autore	Samolsky Russell
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina	809.3/04
Collana	Modern Language Initiative
Soggetto topico	Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Ethics in literature Apocalyptic literature Prophecy in literature Violence in literature Mimesis in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8232-3481-9 0-8232-4124-6 1-283-58022-5 9786613892676 0-8232-4151-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: writing violence : marked bodies and retroactive signs -- Metaleptic machines : Kafka, Kabbalah, Shoah -- Kafka and Shoah -- Kafka and Kabbalah -- Inscriptional machines -- Apocalyptic futures : Heart of darkness, embodiment, and African genocide -- Heart of darkness and African genocide -- The genealogy of apocalypse -- Delayed decodings -- Marlow and messianism -- The body in ruins : torture, allegory, and materiality in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians -- The politics of the eternal present -- Torture and allegory -- The body in ruins -- The materiality of the letter -- Mourning the bones -- Coda : the time of inscription: Maus and the apocalypse of number.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457457503321

Autore	Norris Margot
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Johns Hopkins University Press
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 265 pages :) : illustrations)
Disciplina	809/.93384
Soggetto topico	Psychoanalysis and literature Literature and science Art, Modern - 20th century Mimesis in literature Animals in literature Anthropomorphism Human beings - Animal nature Comparative literature - Themes, motives Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Soggetto non controllato	Literature: history & criticism
ISBN	1-4214-3132-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. Introduction: The biocentric tradition -- 2. Darwin's reading of nature -- 3. Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the problem of mimesis -- 5. Nietzsche's Ecce homo: Behold the beast -- 6. Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. The ontology of D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr -- 9. The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. Conclusion: The biocentric tradition in context.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910524846103321