Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory vol. LII
by Dietmar Regensburger
University of Innsbruck
published in: Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion vol. 85 (August 2025)
Books concerning the entire work of René Girard
Andrzej, Fretschel-Hojarski. Among the Outsiders: Studies in Scapegoat Figure Typologies. Cross-Roads 37. Berlin a.o.: Peter Lang Verlag, 2025.
Carr, Elias. I Came to Cast Fire: An Introduction to René Girard. Forword by Luke Burgis. Elk Grove Village: Word on Fire, 2024.
Perret, Bernard. Violence des dieux, violence de l’homme: René Girard, notre contemporain. La Couleur des idées. Paris: Seuil, 2023.
Rodriguez, Juan Sebastian Ballen. El contagio y la violencia en las sociedades contemporáneas: política, literatura y religión. Sello Editorial UNAD. Artes y Humanidades. Colombia,CO: Sello Editorial UNAD, 2024.
Articles concerning the entire work of René Girard
Armstrong, Robert. “What I Could Have Learnt from René Girard.” Financial Times, July 12, 2025.
Arppe, Tiina. “Sacred Violence: Girard, Bataille and the Vicissitudes of Human Desire.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 10, no. 2 (2009): 31–58.
Assheuer, Thomas. “Trump-Unterstützer: Peter Thiels trojanisches Pferd.” Die Zeit, June 25, 2025.
Bain-Selbo, Eric. “First Quarter: Theoretical Approaches to Religious Violence.” In Violence in Southern Sport and Culture: Sacred Battles on the Gridiron, edited by Eric Bain-Selbo, 1–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Bain-Selbo, Eric. “Second Quarter: Violence and American Football.” In Violence in Southern Sport and Culture: Sacred Battles on the Gridiron, edited by Eric Bain-Selbo, 15–20. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Barber, Benjamin. “Immanence, Transcendence, and Interdividual Desire in Nietzsche, Bataille, and Levinas.” Anthropoetics 25, no. 1 (2019).
Bartlett, Andrew. “Differing over Originary Violence: Between Girard and Gans.” Anthropoetics 29, no. 1 (2023).
Bishop, Paul. “From God in Exile to I See Satan Fall Like Lightning: Cornelio Fabro, Romano Guardini, and René Girard.” In Nietzsche’s Writing Against Religion and the Crisis of Faith: Twentieth-Century Christian Reactions and Responses, edited by Paul Bishop, 133–94. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
Carl, Katy. “René Girard Explains Us to Ourselves.” Word on Fire (blog), April 25, 2025.
Chabbert, M. “‘What Forced Men to Kill Their Own Kind in Religious Ceremonies’? Anthropology and Metaphysics of Sacrifice in the Work of Georges Bataille and René Girard.” Tropos 3 (2016): 58–66.
Chistyakova, Olga Vasilievna. “Religion Against Violence: Insights of Contemporary Philosophy and Eastern Patristics.” Religions 15, no. 11 (2024): 1360.
Cooke, Roderick. “Theorizing the Scapegoat in Maupassant and Zola.” French Forum 41, no. 3 (2016): 177–91.
Dumouchel, Paul. “Beyond the Barren Sacrifice: René Girard and Joseph Wresinski.” In Rethinking Our World from the Perspective of Poverty with Joseph Wresinski, edited by Bruno Tardieu and Jean Tonglet, 115–29. Paris: Les éditions Hermann, 2020.
Gans, Eric. “The Origins of Generative Anthropology.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 770 (April 22, 2023).
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. “Rene Girard [*1923]: Prophet des Neids.” In Denk-Profile: Sechzehn Intellektuelle des langen 20. Jahrhunderts, 37–44. Denkprofile. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2022.
Hallgarth, Matthew. “Prophetic Contrasts: How Durkheim and Girard Affirm the Religious Gift of Peace.” Religions 15, no. 12 (2024): 1545.
Houston, Stan, and Calvin Swords. “Critical Realism, Mimetic Theory and Social Work.” Journal of Social Work 22, no. 2 (2022): 345–63.
Janthial, Dominique. “Girard lit Isaïe, le bouquin émissaire.” Nouvelle Revue Théologique 132, no. 3 (2010): 353–67.
Kerr, Fergus. “Revealing the Scapegoat Mechanism: Christianity after Girard.” In Spiritual Life, edited by Michael McGhee, 264–88. Talking Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Kremplewska, Katarzyna. “Erratic Paths of the Human Subject in René Girard’s Thought.” Archiwum Historii Filozofii i Myśli Społecznej, no. 64 (2019): 291–308.
Lev, Amnon. “Modernity and Mimetic Desire: A Critique of René Girard.” Constellations 31, no. 1 (2024): 18–31.
Lundie, David. “Enclosure and Undifferentiation: On Re-Reading Girard during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 44, no. 4 (2023): 624–34.
Mandelartz, Michael, and David Weiß. “Einleitung: Religion in Japan. Einführende Darstellung und religionssoziologische Überlegungen zu ihrer Aktualität.” In Religionspolitik und politische Religion in Japan und Europa: Debatten um Polytheismus, Nationalismus und Kolonialismus, edited by Michael Mandelartz and David Weiß, 1–34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2024.
Marcus, Amit. “Narrators, Narratees, and Mimetic Desire.” In Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses, edited by Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik, 206–33. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2010.
Marino, Piero. “La ‘vera’ storia del ‘Mercante’. Legge, sacrificio e giustizia nella città di Venezia.” ISLL Papers: The Online Collection of the Italian Society for Law and Literature vol. 17 (2024): 528–37.
Moreno Villanueva, Emilio. “Girard and the Sacred: A Mimetic Approach to Religion.” Sacra 22, no. 2 (2024): 43–55.
Moss, Gregory S. “Rene Girard and the Phenomenology of Mimetic Desire.” Studia z Teorii Wychowania 14, no. 2 (2023): 43–82.
Richter, Angela. “Philosoph René Girard: Der Prophet, der die ‘Super-Opfer-Maschine’ entdeckte.” Die Welt, October 17, 2024.
Rossouw, Johann. “Die industrialisering van mimese: In gesprek met die denke van René Girard en Bernard Stiegler oor outomatisering.” Litnet Akademies: ’n Joernaal vir die Geesteswetenskappe, Natuurwetenskappe, Regte en Godsdienswetenskappe 19, no. 1 (2022): 138–61.
Ruetenik, Tadd. “Scapegoat.” In Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, edited by David A. Leeming, 2121–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
Scordino, Anthony J. “Method in Mimetic Theory: René Girard and Christian Theology.” Modern Theology 40, no. 2 (2024): 321–46.
Sik, Domonkos. “From Scapegoating to the Culture of Cruelty: (Mis)Managing Mimetic Desire and Violence in Late Modernity.” Theory, Culture & Society 41, no. 6 (2024): 37–57.
Syzdykov, Al-Tair. “Literature and Culture in Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory.” International Journal of Society, Culture & Language 9, no. 2 (2021): 160–69.
Tutt, Daniel. “Initiation: René Girard and Alain Badiou.” In Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation, edited by Daniel Tutt, 69–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Uzlaner, Dmitry. “The Corrupted ‘Wheel of Life’: An Essay on Ouroboroses.” Open Theology 10, no. 1 (2024): 1–33.
Wolf, Philipp. “Mimesis: A Protean Concept.” Journal of Modern Literature 48, no. 1 (2024): 178–90.
Reviews about single works of René Girard and scholars of Mimetic Theory
AI Book Highlights. “Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory by Wolfgang Palaver | | AIBHP 016.” AI Book Highlights Podcast (YouTube), May 14, 2025.
Alberg, Jeremiah. “Review of ‘“Everything Came to Me at Once”: The Intellectual Vision of René Girard’, by Cynthia L. Haven.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 83 (March 13, 2025): 37–39.
———. “Review of ‘If These Fists Could Talk: A Stuntman’s Unflinching Take on Violence’, by Eric Jacobus.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 84 (May 21, 2025): 14–16.
Antonelli, Emanuele. “Review of ‘Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious, Volume 1: The Catharsis; Hypothesis and Violence’ and of ‘The Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis’, by Nidesh Lawtoo.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 83 (March 13, 2025): 30–33.
Cuciniello, Antonio. “Review of ‘Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence: In Dialogue with René Girard’, by Adnane Mokrani.” Journal of Islamic Studies 35, no. 2 (2024): 246–50.
Delport, Khegan. “Review of ‘Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines, Edited by Marcia Pally.” Reviews in Religion & Theology 30, no. 3 (2023): 190–93.
Dumouchel, Paul. “L’ ‘œuvre-vie’ de René Girard (Review of ‘René Girard. Biographie’, by Benoît Chantre).” Esprit, no. 3 (March 22, 2024): 156–59.
Fernandes, Clinton. “Review of ‘East Timor, Rene Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy’, by Susan Connelly.” Australian Journal of Politics & History 70, no. 1 (2024): 160–61.
Gans, Eric. “Benoît Chantre’s ‘René Girard: Biographie’ (Grasset, 2023) – Part I.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 800 (February 24, 2024).
———. “Benoît Chantre’s ‘René Girard: Biographie’ (Grasset, 2023) – Part II.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 801 (March 2, 2024).
Gruenler, Curtis. “Review of ‘Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy’, Edited by Cynthia L. Haven, and ‘The World of René Girard: Interviews’, by Nadine Dormoy.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 84 (May 21, 2025): 11–13.
———. “Review of ‘Religion: Rereading What Is Bound Together’, by Michel Serres.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 83 (March 13, 2025): 27–29.
Gruica, Toma. “Review of ‘Philosophy’s Violent Sacred. Heidegger and Nietzsche through Mimetic Theory’, by Duane Armitage.” Synthesis Philosophica 37, no. 2 (2023): 499–502.
Kaplan, Grant. “Review of ‘Reclaiming Sacrifice: Integrating Girardian and Feminist Insights on the Cross’, by Chelsea Jordan King.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 84 (May 21, 2025): 8–10.
Kriss, Sam. “Overwhelming and Collective Murder: The Grand, Gruesome Theories of René Girard (Review of ‘All Desire Is a Desire for Being’, by René Girard).” Harper’s Magazine, November 2023.
Leclerc, Gérard. “Pour le centenaire de René Girard (Review of ‘René Girard. Biographie’, by Benoît Chantre).” Royalistes, no. 1268 (December 18, 2023).
Liechty, Daniel. “Review of ’Can We Survive Our Origins? Readings in René Girard’s Theory of Violence and the Sacred, Edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford.” Religion 47, no. 3 (2017): 542–45.
Packer, Matthew. “Review of ‘The Scandal of Leadership: Unmasking the Powers of Dominion in the Church’, by J. R. Woodward.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 83 (March 13, 2025): 34–36.
Rizvi, Sajjad. “Review of ‘Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence: In Dialogue with René Girard’, by Adnane Mokrani.” Religious Studies Review 49, no. 3 (2023): 408–9.
Stoicoui, Rodica. “Review of ‘Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciples’, Edited by Marcia Pally.” Horizons 48, no. 1 (2021): 244–46.
Takacs, Axel. “Review of ‘Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence: In Dialogue with René Girard’, by Adnane Mokrani.” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 35, no. 2 (2024): 190–92.
Tarot, Camille. “Review of ‘René Girard. Biographie’, by Benoît Chantre.” Archives de sciences sociales des religions, no. 208 (December 31, 2024): 201–3.
Interviews with René Girard and scholars of Mimetic Theory
Barron, Robert. “The Power of Mimetic Desire with Luke Burgis.” WOF Podcast 348, August 22, 2022.
Chantre, Benoît, and Sean Rose. “René Girard, un penseur pour notre temps.” Études, no. 12 (November 29, 2023): 47–56.
Girard, Benoît. “René Girard – La violence et le sacré, ou du roman au sacrifice. Conférence au Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen à Nice pour le centième anniversaire de René Girard le mercredi 10 Mai 2023.” Nice.fr tv (YouTube), June 8, 2023.
Hermitix. “René Girard’s Mimetic Theory with Wolfgang Palaver.” Hermitix Podcast (YouTube). Accessed March 31, 2021.
HOM Videos, ep. 10: Mimetic Trouble with Judith Butler, parts I-V. Interview by Nidesh Lawtoo. HOM Videos (YouTube), March 13, 2025.
Jonathan Pageau. Revenge of the Scapegoat. Interview with Luke Burgis. Symbolic World blog and podcast (YouTube), December 23, 2022.
Lawtoo, Nidesh. “The Urgency of Mimetic Studies: From Imitation to (New) Fascism. Girard Lecture at Leiden University.” HOM Videos ERC Project Homo Mimeticus (YouTube), November 28, 2024.
Mixa, Robert. “Kaplan Interview, Part I: Girard, Scapegoating, and the Antidote to Annihilation.” Word on Fire (blog), April 22, 2021.
———. “Kaplan Interview, Part II: ‘Our Victim Is a Better Victim Than Your Victim.’” Word on Fire (blog), April 26, 2021.
Robert meets World. “Wolfgang Palaver: Mimetic Theory, Rene Girard, Violence & The Sacred.” Robert Meets World RXW8 (YouTube), July 13, 202.
Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard | Full Length Documentary by Sam Sorich. Glass Darkly Films (YouTube), 2024.
Willis, Bry. “The Scapegoat and the Spectacle.” Philosophics – Philosophical and Political Ramblings Podcast (Spotify), December 7, 2024.
Books with references to René Girard
Abel, Jonathan E. The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Ahn, Ilsup. The Church in the Public: A Politics of Engagement for a Cruel and Indifferent Age. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2022.
Albinus, Lars. Livsvæsen: Om forholdet mellem dyret, mennesket og det guddommelige. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2021.
Apor, Péter. Backyard Revolution: Mass Violence, Antisemitism, and the Populist State in Post–World War II Hungary. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025.
Aras, Bülent. Turkey’s State Crisis: Institutions, Reform, and Conflict. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2022.
Asparouhova, Nadia. Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading. New York: The Dark Forest Collective, 2025.
Baldasso, Franco. Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022.
Barnwell, Jane. Production Design & the Cinematic Home. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Barry IV, Richard J. Jewish Temple Theology and the Mystery of the Cross: Atonement and the Two Goats of Yom Kippur. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2023.
Borenstein, Eliot. Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Burdorff, Sara. Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)Mortality from Homer to Shakespeare. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
Catino, Maurizio. Scapegoating: How Organizations Assign Blame. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Cavanaugh, William T. The Uses of Idolatry. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Cavarero, Adriana. Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence. Translated by William McCuaig. Columbia University Press, 2008.
Chebel d’Appollonia, Ariane. Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Chow, Jeremy. The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Cleary, Joe. Modernism, Empire, World Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Crary, Jonathan. Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Crews, Michael Lynn. Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024.
Dadosky, John. The Wisdom of Order: An Exploration of Lonergan’s Method in Theology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Dalarun, Jacques. To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy. Translated by Sean L. Field. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.
De Castro, Juan E. Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom: Latin American Authors and the Western Canon. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022.
DeCoste, D. Marcel. Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2024.
Denham, Robert. The Reception of Northrop Frye. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Devereux, Cecily. Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2023.
Donahue-Martens, Scott, and Brandon Simonson. Theology, Religion and Dungeons & Dragons: Explorations of the Sacred Through Fantasy Worlds. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2025.
Duns, SJ, Ryan G. Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024.
Eng, Chris A. Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America. New York: NYU Press, 2025.
Fiddes, Paul S. More Things in Heaven and Earth: Shakespeare, Theology, and the Interplay of Texts. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Fischer, André. The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar Culture. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024.
Galvin, John P. Scapegoat and Lamb of God: The Incarnation in Raymund Schwager’s Soteriology. Dissertations and Theses. Catholic University of America. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 2025.
Gharbi, Musa al-. We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
Glatt, Carra. Narrative and Its Nonevents: The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian Realism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022.
González, Luis M. Modes of the Tragic in Spanish Cinema. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.
Green, Chris E. W. All Things Beautiful: An Aesthetic Christology. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2021.
Guarino, Thomas G. The Unchanging Truth of God? Crucial Philosophical Issues for Theology: Crucial Philosophical Issues for Theology. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.
Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer. German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings: A Cultural History in Bronze, Wood, and Stone. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2025.
Hendriks, Thomas. Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
Hill, Wes. Art after the Hipster. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Holdridge, Jefferson. Stepping through Origins: Nature, Home, and Landscape in Irish Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2022.
Hristova, Stefka. Proto-Algorithmic War: How the Iraq War Became a Laboratory for Algorithmic Logics. Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Hunt, Eileen M. The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.
Intersimone, Luis Alfredo. La medusa, el mono y la marioneta: Teología política y erótica en el peronismo. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Ireland, John. Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis: Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath. University of Michigan Press, 2025.
Jackson, Jeanne-Marie. The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
James, Tom, and David True. The Transcendence of Desire: A Theology of Political Agency. New Approaches to Religion and Power. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.
Jerne, Christina. Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Kallendorf, Hilaire. Perilous Passions: Ethics and Emotion in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Kalmar, Ivan. White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022.
Khalifa-Gueta, Sharon. The Woman and the Dragon in Premodern Art. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023.
Knausgaard, Karl Ove. The End: My Struggle Book 6. Translated by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken. Harvill Secker, 2018.
Krinks, Andrew. White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. New York: NYU Press, 2024.
Lane, Melissa. Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Legault-Laberge, Raphaël Mathieu. Quatre essais d’anthropologie des religions. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2022.
Lettman, Stacy J. The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Little, Brent, and Mark Bosco SJ. Acts of Faith and Imagination: Theological Patterns in Catholic Fiction. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2023.
Luksza, Agata. Polish Theatre Revisited: Theatre Fans in the Nineteenth Century. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023.
Lundie, David. School Leadership between Community and the State: The Changing Civic Role of Schooling. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Magnani, Lorenzo. Understanding Violence: The Intertwining of Morality, Religion, Capitalism and Violence: A Philosophical Stance. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2024.
Moreno-Almeida, Cristina. Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque. London: The British Academy, 2024.
Muller, Denis. Journalism and the Future of Democracy. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.
Natkovich, Svetlana. Questionable People: Inventing Modern Jewish Selves in the Russian Empire, 1860-1890. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2025.
Neely, Brent. Atonement Theology in Conversation with Islamic Thought. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2024.
O’Malley, Maria. Imaginary Empires: Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.
Oort, Richard van. Shakespeare’s Exiles. New York: Routledge, 2025.
Orji, Cyril. Black Theology and the Menace of Racial Apocalypse: Lonergan and Racial Reconciliation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025.
Páramo Bonilla, Carlos G. Wakas y temblores: terror indígena en la gran revuelta andina (1780-1783). Editorial UN, 2024.
Pearce, Jenny. Politics without Violence?: Towards a Post-Weberian Enlightenment. Rethinking Political Violence. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
Pinn, Anthony B. My Jams: Reflections on the Relationship between Music and Religion. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2025.
Pitavy-Souques, Danièle. The Eye That Is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Pugh, Tison. Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum’s Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Riordan, Patrick. Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2023.
Roberts, Jennifer T. Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
Roesen, Tine. Dostojevskij: En introduktion. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2021.
Rosen, Matthew. Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022.
Rossoni, Stefano. Heterosexual Masculinities and the Self-Reflexive Novel. London: UCL Press, 2025.
Russell, Richard Rankin. Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama: Second Edition. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2022.
San Juan, Rose Marie. Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2023.
Scola, Angelo, and Adriana Cavarero. Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Political and Theological Dialogue. Translated by Adam Sitze and Margaret Adams Groesbeck. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.
Serres, Michel. Religion: Rereading What Is Bound Together. Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022.
Simard, Jean-Claude, and Jean-Pierre Castel. La mathématisation du temps: de la science hellénistique à la science moderne. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2024.
Skotnicki, Andrew. Injustice and Prophecy in the Age of Mass Incarceration: The Politics of Sanity. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022.
Smith-Rowsey, Daniel. Blockbuster Performances: How Actors Contribute to Cinema’s Biggest Hits. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Sorenson, Alexander. The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024.
Spencer, Mark K. The Irreducibility of the Human Person: A Catholic Synthesis. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.
Tobin, Daniel. The Odeon: Essays on Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2025.
Vanegas Muñoz, Gildardo. La saga del narcotráfico en Cali, 1950-2018. Cali, Colombia: Editorial Universidad del Valle, 2021.
Vergara, José. All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.
Vogl, Joseph, and Niklas Bornhauser Neuber. El lugar de la violencia: La ética literaria de Kafka. Santiago, Chile: Metales Pesados, 2023.
Wampuszyc, Ewa, and Joanna Tokarska-Bakir. Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Wareh, Patricia. Courteous Exchanges: Spenser’s and Shakespeare’s Gentle Dialogues with Readers and Audiences. Manchester University Press, 2024.
Weinstein, Arnold. The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
White, OP, Thomas Joseph. Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 2: On the Rational Credibility of Christianity. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2024.
Woggon, Frank. The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2024.
Wong, Pak Nung. Destined Statecraft. Singapore: Springer, 2018.
Yonucu, Deniz. Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022.
Zibrak, Arielle. Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures. New York: NYU Press, 2021.
Articles with references to René Girard
Ahmed, Kawser. “The Changing Landscape of Violent Extremism (VE) in Bangladesh: A View from the Mezzanine.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems, edited by Rajendra Baikady, S.M Sajid, Jaroslaw Przeperski, Varoshini Nadesan, Islam Rezaul, and Jianguo Gao, 1–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.
Alber, Jan, and Monika Fludernik. “Introduction.” In Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses, edited by Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik, 01–31. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2010.
Allen, Charlotte. “A World On Film Yorgos Lanthimos.” Salmagundi Magazine, No. 224-225 (Fall/Winter 2024/25).
Alraddadi, Raya. “The Aesthetics of the Oppressed: Oil and Capitalism in Abdelrahman Munif’s ‘Cities of Salt.’” MFS Modern Fiction Studies 68, no. 1 (2022): 22–42.
Alvis, Jason W. “Phenomenology’s Rejects: Religion after Derrida’s Denegations.” Open Theology 3, no. 1 (2017): 590–99.
Askonas, Jon. “The New Control Society.” The New Atlantis, no. 79 (2025): 28–65.
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Schneiders, Sandra M. “Whose Sins You Shall Forgive . . . The Holy Spirit and the Forgiveness of Sin(s) in the Fourth Gospel.” In It Is the Spirit Who Gives Life: New Directions in Pneumatology, edited by Radu Bordeianu, 53–86. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.
Shore, Marci. “This Is What Evil Looks Like: Toward a Phenomenology of Evil in Postmodern Form.” Social Research: An International Quarterly 91, no. 1 (2024): 375–96.
Sierra, Sarah. “Pathogenic Nationalism: Epidemic Outbreak and Xenophobic Patriotism in Galdós’s ‘Zaragoza’.” Anales Galdosianos 56, no. 1 (2021): 73–92.
Slife, Brent D., and Eric A. Ghelfi. “A New Wave of Thinking in Psychology: Relationality Versus Abstractionism.” In Re-Envisioning Theoretical Psychology: Diverging Ideas and Practices, edited by Thomas Teo, 239–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Slyck, Phyllis van. “The Provocative Strangeness of Camus’s ‘L’Etranger’ and Coetzee’s ‘Disgrace’.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies 67, no. 4 (2021): 660–87.
Smith, Zachary T. “Wrestling with Repugnance: Christian Mixed Martial Arts, Repugnant Rhetoric, and Scholarly Affects.” In American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Two, edited by Prea Persaud, Samah Choudhury, and Michael J. Altman, 35–65. The University of Alabama Press, 2022.
Soubervielle, José Armando Hernández. “Roma En El Potosi Novohispano. Tres Casos De Parricidio Y ‘Poena Cullei’ En Los Siglos Xvii Y Xviii.” Historia Mexicana 74, no. 3 (295) (2025): 1107–60.
Suárez-Trejo, Javier Teofilo. “Entre El Culto Y El Cultivo Del Yo: La Otra Via De La Vanguardia Peruana O El Caso Alberto Hidalgo.” Revista Chilena de Literatura, no. 110 (2024): 193–228.
Suhr-Sytsma, Nathan. “Forms of Interreligious Encounter in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction.” African Studies Review 65, no. 3 (2022): 669–91.
Super, Gail. “Penal Violence in Spaces of Precarity.” Social Research: An International Quarterly 91, no. 4 (2024): 1177–1205.
Szakolczai, Árpád. “Michel Serres and Gregory Bateson: Implicit Dialogue about a Recognitive Epistemology of Nature.” In Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres, edited by Daniel M. Knight and Andreas Bandak, 175–96. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
Taylor, Matthew. “How John Lennon’s ‘No Religion’ Instantiates Religion: A Symbolic Analysis a La the Brothers Pageau.” Anthropoetics 29, no. 2 (2024).
Theron, Cleo Beth. “Discrepant Dimensions of Belonging in Nathacha Appanah’s ‘Tropic of Violence.’” Research in African Literatures 54, no. 4 (2024): 56–75.
Tobin Stanley, Maureen. “The Pórtico de La Gloria in Manuel Rivas’ Postwar Novel O Lapis Do Carpinteiro (The Carpenter’s Pencil): Art and Hagiography as a Metaphor That Subverts the Glory of Franco’s New Spain.” In Francoist Repression and Incarceration in Contemporary Spanish Culture : Justice through Memory, edited by Maureen Tobin Stanley, 65–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Tooker, Jessica. “Empathetic Reflections on Love, Life, and Death Art in Othello.” In The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs, edited by William E. Engel and Grant Williams, 133–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret. “‘The Uncertainty of This World’: Shakespeare in ‘Unprecedented’ Times.” In None a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage, edited by Matteo Pangallo and Scott Oldenburg, 37–63. The University of Alabama Press, 2025.
Vanderhoof, Erin. “Why Celebrity Endorsements Don’t Always Deliver Votes, and Might Work Against Candidates.” Vanity Fair, November 13, 2024.
Wald, Christina. “The Spectral Returns of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in Marina Carr’s ‘Portia Coughlan: “Only His Shadow?”’” Shakespeare Bulletin 39, no. 2 (2021): 241–60.
WalkerJr., Graham B. “Cain Finds His Voice.” Review & Expositor 121, no. 1–2 (2024): 21–31.
Wang, Keren. “Legal and Ritological Dynamics of Personalized ‘Pillars of Shame’ in Chinese Social Credit System Construction.” China Review 24, no. 3 (2024): 179–206.
Whalon, Pierre W. “Theology and Anthropology: Can Each Help the Other?” Anthropoetics 26, no. 2 (2021).
Whiting, Kezia. “What Bertha Knows: Proprietary Narration in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss.’” Twentieth-Century Literature 68, no. 4 (2022): 437–65.
Wiener, Anna. “What Is It About Peter Thiel? The Billionaire Venture Capitalist Has Fans and Followers. What Are They Looking For?” The New Yorker, October 27, 2021.
Wise, Ryan M. “The Universal As (Non-)Particular: Agamben, Metz, And The Theology Of Victimhood.” Modern Theology 41, no. 1 (2025): 21–47.
Zaidi, Syed Muhammad Saad and Nirmal. “Emerging Realities in the International Political System: Transforming State’s Foreign Policy.” Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 93, no. 6 (2023): 376–89.
Zerlauth, Thomas. “Trojanische Gedankenpferde – Instrumente des viralen Marketings.” In Virale Markenbildung: Wie Marken Meme erfolgreich nutzen, edited by Thomas Zerlauth, 201–40. München: Haufe, 2023.
Zoberman, Pierre. “Proust and the Intertextual Construction of Identity.” Intertexts 28, no. 2 (2024): 143–58.
Books applying the mimetic theory
Cowdell, Scott, Chris Fleming, and Joel Hodge, eds. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. Reprint. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 1. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Daz-morln, Isabel. Così Fan Tutte, an Opera of Mimetic Revelation. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2025.
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. The War That Must Not Occur. Translated by Malcolm Debevoise. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2023.
Haden, Kyle Edward. Embodied Idolatry: A Critique of Christian Nationalism. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022.
Jacobus, Eric. If These Fists Could Talk: A Stuntman’s Unflinching Take on Violence. Amazon.com: Independently published, 2025.
King, Chelsea Jordan. Reclaiming Sacrifice: Integrating Girardian and Feminist Insights on the Cross. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024.
Lawtoo, Nidesh. Das Phantom von Ego: Nietzsche, Modernismus und das mimetische Unbewusste. Beiträge zur mimetischen Theorie 36. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2024.
———. Homo Mimeticus: Eine neue Theorie der Imitation. Beiträge zur mimetischen Theorie 35. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2023.
———. Homo mimeticus. Una nueva teoría de la imitación. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch, 2024.
———. Mimetic Posthumanism: Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics. Critical Posthumanisms. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
———. (Neuer) Faschismus: Ansteckung, Gemeinschaft, Mythos. Beiträge zur mimetischen Theorie 37. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2025.
Lawtoo, Nidesh, and Marina Garcia-Granero, eds. Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns To Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Resch, Félix, and Marie Girard, eds. Violence et Révélation. René Girard, lecteur de l’écriture. collection Cahiers de la NRT. Paris: CLD editions, 2024.
Rivard, Étienne. Le Métis sacrificiel: les habits neufs du colonialisme au Canada. Perspectives de l’Ouest. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2024.
Roumas, Nicholas. Redemption: A Mimetic Soteriology. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025.
———. Sacrifice and Redemption: A New Approach From Mimetic Theory. Milwaukee, Wisc.: Marquette University, 2021.
Wilson, Eric M. Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema: The Legal Drama of the Scapegoat. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2024.
Woodward, J. R. The Scandal of Leadership: Unmasking the Powers of Domination in the Church. With Forewords by David Fitch and Amos Young. Cody, Wyoming: 100 Movements Publishing, 2023.
Articles applying the mimetic theory
Antonysamy, Morris. “Can Religion Overcome Violence? A Mimetic Perspective.” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 17, no. 1 (2017): 133–56.
Azou, Pierre. “Envy, Deceit, and Dating Apps: ‘The End of Love’ According to René Girard.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 165–75.
Bao, Yuhui. “History, Desire, and Sadomasochism in Alice Munro’s ‘The Beggar Maid’.” Anthropoetics 26, no. 2 (2021).
Bashaw, Jennifer Garcia. “The Woman Saved from Stoning: An Answer to Scapegoats and Scapegoating.” Review & Expositor 120, no. 1–2 (2023): 129–34.
Bonasera, Carmen. “Negative Empathy in Fiction: Mimesis, Contagion, Catharsis.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 247–62. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Bourdin, Jean-Marc. “Du désastre au désir.” Les Cahiers A’chroniques, no. 06 (2023): 27–46.
Carr, Fr Elias. “René Girard and the Big Question of Human Origins.” Word on Fire (blog), November 14, 2024.
Castrillo, Carlos V. “El derecho desde el pensamiento de René Girard.” Aequitas Virtual 16, no. 36 (2022).
Connolly, William E. “Arks at Sea and Arcs of Time.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 323–42. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Corazo, Kahlil. “The Scapegoat Mechanism in Southeast Asian Ritual, Myth, and Politics: From Mead and Bateson’s Trance and Dance in Bali to Massacres in the Philippines and Indonesia.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 67–89.
Cowdell, Scott. “Trinity Beyond Revelation, Salvation and Relationality: On the ‘Severe and Novel Trinitarian Doctrine’ of Katherine Sonderegger.” Journal of Anglican Studies 23, no. 1 (May 2025): 219–26.
Díaz-Morlán, Pablo. “The Mimetic Brain: The Neural Basis of Desire, Pleasure, Envy, and Addiction.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 111–36.
Dicks, Henry. “The Biomimicry Revolution: Contributions to Mimetic Studies.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 305–22. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Doure, Affoua Evelyne. “Investigating Violent Language: Mimetic Desire, Gender Norms, and Acts of Violence in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’.” Revue Baobab, no. 38 (2024): 54–68.
Dryden, Izumi. “The Sound of Metaphysical ‘Being’: Ontological Dichotomy in the Works of Musico-Philosophical Writers Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anthony Burgess.” Anthropoetics 29, no. 1 (2023).
Dumouchel, Paul. “Mimesis and Imitation.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 55–66.
Ender, Evelyne. “Literature, Pedagogy, and the Power of Mimesis: On Teaching Maylis de Kerangal?S The Heart.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 285–304. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Etienne, Hubert, and François Charton. “A Mimetic Approach to Social Influence on Instagram.” Philosophy & Technology 37, no. 2 (May 22, 2024): 65.
Farneti, Roberto. “The Horror of Self-Reflection: The Concealment of Violence in a ‘Self-Conscious and Critical Society.’” Theory & Event 11, no. 3 (2008).
Fashbaugh, Martin. “Gabriel’s Epiphany and the End of Resentment: Religious Feeling in James Joyce’s ‘The Dead.’” Anthropoetics 27, no. 2 (2022).
Fleming, Chris. “The Human as a Danger to Itself: Murder in the 180th Degree.” Anthropoetics 28, no. 1 (2022).
Fretschel-Hojarski, Andrzej. “Mimetic Set and Match: Around Shaffer’s ‘Sleuth.’” Studia Filmoznawcze 47 (2024): 11–24.
Gallese, Vittorio, and Nidesh Lawtoo. “Coda. Beyond Brain and Body: A Dialogue with Vittorio Gallese.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 343–76. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Gans, Eric. “Antisemitism, Scapegoating, Christianity, and Judaism.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 728 (February 12, 2022).
———. “Bad Mimesis and Western Decadence.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 696 (April 10, 2021).
Garcia-Granero, Marina. “Nietzsche’s Nihilism and Mimetic Studies.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Marina Garcia-Granero and Nidesh Lawtoo, 147–66. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Girard, René. “The Secret of the Scapegoat.” In After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man, edited by Piotr Nowak, 17–24. Anthem Press, 2022.
Godbout, Jacques T., and René Girard. “The judgment of Solomon.” Revue du MAUSS 55, no. 1 (2020): 41–50.
Goldman, Peter. “Mimesis in ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’?” Anthropoetics 27, no. 2 (2022).
Gómez, Adriana Ruelle. “Aproximaciones fenomenológicas a la mímesis positiva y a la mímesis amorosa.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 7 (November 26, 2024): 29–54.
Gruenler, Curtis. “‘On Fairy-Stories’ as a Theory of Literature: Tolkien Meets Ricœur and Girard on the Field of Myth.” Religion & Literature 55, no. 2 (2024): 169–91.
Guggenberger, Wilhelm. “Moments of Grace in a Field of Ruins: A Reflection on the Movie Babel.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 39–53.
Hernández, Teresa Casas. “Mimetic Resistance.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 107–24. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Johnsen, William A. “Essential Violence and René Girard’s Mimetic Theory.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 167–82. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Keohane, Kieran, and Carmen Kuhling. “Fernando Pessoa and the ([P]Re)Birth of Homo Mimeticus.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 263–84. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Kirwan, Michael, SJ. “Mimetic Theory and Original Sin: René Girard, James Alison, and Raymund Schwager.” The Heythrop Journal 65, no. 5 (2024): 515–26.
Kuzhippallil, George Thomas. “Meaning of Mystery as Process of Deification.” Religions 15, no. 8 (2024): 978.
Lawtoo, Nidesh. “A Picture of Africa: Frenzy, Counternarrative, Mimesis.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies 59, no. 1 (2013): 26–52.
———. “Bataille on Mimetic Heterology.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 183–206. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
———. “Conrad in the Anthropocene.” In Joseph Conrad: The Centennial Perspective, edited by Chandrakant Langare and John G. Peters. Jaipure/New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2025.
———. “Fear of the Dark: Surrealist Shadows in “The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’’.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies 60, no. 2 (2014): 227–50.
———. “Prelude: The Discus and the Bow: Homer, Machiavelli, and the Grandissimi Esempli.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 35–54. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
———. “Steps to Planetary Mimesis: The Protean Metamorphoses of Biomimicry.” Theory & Event 28, no. 3 (2025): 366–84.
———. “The Insurrection Moment: Intoxication, Conspiracy, Assault.” Theory & Event 26, no. 1 (2023): 5–30.
Lawtoo, Nidesh, and Marina Garcia-Granero. “Introduction: Mapping Mimetic Studies.” In Homo Mimeticus II, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero, 11–34. Re-Turns to Mimesis. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024.
Lawtoo, Nidesh, Willow Verkerk, and Adriana Cavarero. “Mimetic Inclinations: An Introduction.” Critical Horizons 24, no. 2 (April 3, 2023): 103–14.
Manley, Clinton. “The Middle-(Un)Man of Desire: A Girardian Reading of ‘Perelandra.’” Mythlore 43, no. 2(146) (2025): 67–82.
McElcheran, Susan. “Masks, Morons, and Monsters: Stigma Theory and Intellectual Disability Studies in Conversation with Mimetic Theory.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 187–213.
McKenna, Andrew. “Joseph Conrad’s ‘An Outpost of Progress’: History and the Epistemics of Fiction.” Anthropoetics 29, no. 2 (2024).
———. “Regenerative Anthropology in Fact, Fiction, and Prophecy: Jefferson, Douglass, Twain, Lincoln.” Anthropoetics 26, no. 1 (2020).
———. “Shakespeare’s Linguistic Turn in ‘King Lear’.” Anthropoetics 25, no. 1 (2019).
McLaughlin, Brett. “The Contemporary Barrage of Victimhood: The Posture of Vengeful Lament and Resentment.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 177–86.
Paik, Peter Y. “The Ethics of Betrayal: Seduction and Initiation in Dangerous Liaisons.” In Fictional Worlds and the Moral Imagination, edited by Garry L. Hagberg, 135–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.
Palaver, Wolfgang. “Desacralize the Katechon, Do Not Create Empires!” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 83 (March 13, 2025): 11–17.
René, Richard. “‘Where’s My Cookie?’: Incarceral Reflections on Mimetic Violence with René Girard and Maximus the Confessor.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 215–31.
Sánchez, Jacobo García. “Violencia, Verdad y Diferencia ontológica. Un análisis fenomenológico a partir de Girard.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 7 (November 26, 2024): 15–28.
Sherry Jr., John F. “Mimetic Theory.” Journal of Marketing Management 37, no. 1–2 (January 2, 2021): 23–24.
Taylor, Matthew. “Beholding the Beholder’s Eye: Beauty and Mimetic Effects in Jane Austen.” Anthropoetics 25, no. 1 (2019).
———. “Rebecca Adams’ Model of ‘Loving Mimesis’: An Overview and Assessment.” Anthropoetics 26, no. 1 (2020).
———. “Sensibility’s Double Take: René Girard’s ‘Two Audiences’ and Jane Austen’s Gospel Hermeneutic.” Anthropoetics 27, no. 1 (2021).
Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. “Killing the Fathers of Värmland: Sacrificial Violence in Scandinavian Folklore.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 137–63.
Tóth, Péter. “Migration and Mimetism.” Religious Dialogue and Cooperation 1, no. 1 (2020): 135–44.
Urakova, Alexandra. “A Gift with No Giver: The Narrative of Sacrifice in Maylis de Kerangal’s Mend the Living.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 91–109.
Wrethed, Joakim. “Brett Easton Ellis’s ‘American Psycho’ as a Palimpsest of the Theories of Girard, Gans and de Andrade.” Anthropoetics 27, no. 1 (2021).
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