Desire Flaubert, Proust, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lana Del Rey |
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| Author:
| Grande, Per Bjørnar |
| Series title: | Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61186-321-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2020 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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Desire can take many forms. In novels and plays by Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller and music by Lana Del Rey, desire operates in a complex, slippery way that eludes philosophical and psychoanalytic attempts to pin it down. These and other great works of literature corroborate René Girard's understanding of desire as taking shape "according to the other's desire." Drawing on both modern masterpieces and iconic works of contemporary pop culture,...
More DescriptionDesire can take many forms. In novels and plays by Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller and music by Lana Del Rey, desire operates in a complex, slippery way that eludes philosophical and psychoanalytic attempts to pin it down. These and other great works of literature corroborate René Girard's understanding of desire as taking shape "according to the other's desire." Drawing on both modern masterpieces and iconic works of contemporary pop culture, Per Bjørnar Grande sketches a Girardian phenomenology of desire, one that sheds new light on the frustrating and repetitive nature of human relations in a world of vanishing taboos.