Appendix: Literature and Christianity: a personal view / René Girard. Desiring Proust: Girard against Deleuze / Alessia Ricciardi -- Within and beyond mimetic desire / Luca Di Blasi -- On Girard's biblical realism / Karen S. Feldman -- Creative renunciation: the spiritual heart of Deceit, Desire, and the Novel / Wolfgang Palaver -- The desire to be you: the discourse of praise for the Roman emperor / Marco Formisano -- René Girard (Medieval) sanctity: a reappraisal / Bill Burgwinkle -- Dubbiosi disiri: Mimetic processing in Dante's Comedy / Manuele Gragnolati and Heather Webb -- For a comparative topography of desire: mimetic theory and the world map / Rosa Mucignat -- Nobody's fault: Dickens, René Girard, and the novel / David Quint -- "Let us carve him as a feast fit for the gods": Girard and unjust execution in nineteenth-century narrative / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Dostoyevsky's metaphysical theater: the underground man and the masochist in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel and Resurrection from the Underground / Yue Zhuo -- Deceit, desire, violence, and death in the short stories of Georges Bernanos / Brian Studlow -- Mimetic desire in the otherworldly narratives / Laura Wittman -- Desire, deceit, and defeat in the works of Roberto Arlt / Jobst Welge -- Recantation without conversation: desire, mimesis, and the paradox of engagement in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Petrolio / Christoph F.E. Holzhey -- Jonathan Franzen's novelistic conversion / Trevor Cribben Merrill / Mimetic desire and monstrous doubles in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones / Robert Buch -- Appendix: Literature and Christianity: a personal view / René Girard.
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