CONTAGION:
JOURNAL OF VIOLENCE, MIMESIS, AND CULTURE
VOLUME 1 (SPRING 1994)
"A TRIBUTE TO RENÉ GIRARD:
On the occasion of his 70th birthday"
CONTENTS:
Hamerton-Kelly, Robert: A Tribute to René Girard on his 70th birthday ix
Serres, Michel: One God Or A Trinity? 1
Nowak, Susan: The Girardian Theory and Feminism: Critique and Appropriation 19
McKenna, Andrew J: The Pyrrhus Perplex: A Superficial View of Mimesis 31
Lépine, Jacques-Jude: »Phaedra's« Labyrinth as the Paradigm of Passion: Racine's Aesthetic Formulation of Mimetic Desire 47
Schwager, Raymund: Suffering, Victims, and Poetic Inspiration 63
Bandera, Cesáreo: Seperating the Human from the Divine 73
Williams, James G: History-Writing as Protest: Kingship and the Beginning of Historical Narrative 91
Orzech, Charles D: Mechanisms of Violent Retribution in Chinese Hell Narratives 111
Mishler, William: Sacrificial Nationalism in Henrik Ibsen's »The Pretenders«127
Prystowsky, Richard J: An I for an I: Projection, Subjection, and Christian Antisemitism in »The Service for Representing Adam« 139
Flood, Christopher G: Collective Violence, Sacrifice, and Conflict Resolution in the Works of Paul Claudel 159
Golsan, Richard J: Drieu, Céline: French Fascism, Scapegoating, and the Price of Revelation 173
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