The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard, Trevor Cribben Merrill
Автор: Ren? Girard Название: Violence and the Sacred ISBN: 1472520815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472520814 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.
Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist Ren Girard's notion of "triangular desire," he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive--and bitterly funny--understanding of human attraction.
Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found "the One" at last--or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire.
At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.
Автор: Steinby Liisa Название: Kundera and Modernity ISBN: 1557536376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781557536372 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7484.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera`s work exists, in Liisa Steinby`s opinion, his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Steinby`s book fills this vacuum by analysing Kundera`s novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity.
Автор: J. O`Brien Название: Milan Kundera and Feminist Criticism ISBN: 0312122063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312122065 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
