Contagion 30

Editor's Introduction The View from Pȏle Nord: Sartre, Beauvoir, and Girard on Mimesis, Embodiment, and Desire Martha J. Reineke Rebellion and the Sacred: Sacrifice in Camus's Rebel Brian Harding "Even now, now, very now": Mimesis's and Imitation's Temporalities João Cezar de Castro Rocha Sacrificial "As-If" and Avuncular...
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Editor's Introduction



The View from Pȏle Nord: Sartre, Beauvoir, and Girard on Mimesis, Embodiment, and Desire

Martha J. Reineke



Rebellion and the Sacred: Sacrifice in Camus's Rebel

Brian Harding



"Even now, now, very now": Mimesis's and Imitation's Temporalities

João Cezar de Castro Rocha



Sacrificial "As-If" and Avuncular Hilarity: Living by Méconnaissance

Wiel Eggen



The Mimetic Sacred: Girard and Bataille Transcending Desire

Jeffrey D. McNeil



Sophie, Greta, Cuiyuan, and Feminist Desire: Stories by Ding Ling, Alice Munro, and Eileen Chang

Yuhui Bao and Ian Dennis



Men Becoming Gods in "Style": Gioia and Girard on Divinized Desire

Joshua Hren



Escalation to Academic Extremes? Revisiting Academic Rivalry in the Möhler/Baur Debate

Grant Kaplan



The Myrmidon vs. the Abbess: How Contrasting Mechanisms to Resolve Mimetic Contagion in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Comedy of Errors Stand as a Warning Against the Rejection of Christianity in Favor of Resurgent Homeric Ethos

Brian P. Quaranta



Séduire, C'est Tout: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the Struggle of Influence

Paul Sharma



Imitation, Violence, and Exchange: Girard and Mauss

Per Bjørnar Grande