Mimetic Theory and Film

by Chris Fleming

Book Overview

The interdisciplinary French-American thinker Ren Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of Ren Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth mensonge romantique et v rit romanesque]. And yet, for a thinker whose career began by an engagement with literature, it came as a shock to some that, in La Conversion de l'art,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501367668
• ISBN13: 9781501367663
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"