Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory vol. XLVIII
by Dietmar Regensburger
published in: Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion vol. 67 (March 2021)
We invite you to send books, articles and references dealing with René Girard and Mimetic Theory in digital formats via email or print copies to Girard-Documentation, c/o Dr. Dietmar Regensburger, University of Innsbruck, Karl-Rahner-Platz 1, A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria.
The Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory (Vol. I–XLVII) is available online.
1) Books concerning the entire work of René Girard
Edwards, John P. James Alison and a Girardian Theology: Conversion, Theological Reflection, and Induction. New York: T&T Clark, 2020.
Girard, René. Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy. Edited by Cynthia L. Haven. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Palaver, Wolfgang. Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with René Girard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
2) Articles concerning the entire work of René Girard
Antonelli, Emanuele. “Mimesis and Attention: On Christian ‘Sophrosyne’.” Forum Philosophicum 23, no. 2 (2018): 259–74.
Antonello, Pierpaolo. “Sacrificing ‘Homo Sacer’: René Girard Reads Giorgio Agamben.” Forum Philosophicum 24, no. 1 (2019): 145–82.
Bartlett, Anthony W. “Theology and Catastrophe: A (Girardian) Semiotics of Re-Humanization.” Forum Philosophicum 23, no. 2 (2018): 171–88.
Belousek, Darrin. “Violence and Vengeance, Mimesis and Murder, Conflict and Cross: A Critical-Constructive Engagement with René Girard.” Life & Thought 62, no. 1 (2017): 60–74.
Beriain, Josetxo. “The Endless Metamorphoses of Sacrifice and Its Clashing Narratives.” Religions 11, no. 12 (December 2020): 684.
Brito, Ênio José da Costa. “Da violência ao Apocalipse na obra de René Girard.” REVER – Revista de Estudos da Religião 19, no. 1 (May 9, 2019): 221–28.
Bussey, Samuel. “Stories of Sacrifice from below: From Girard to Ekem, Kalengyo and Oduyoye.” STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal 6, no. 4 (2020): 183–212.
Checchi, Tania. “Myth and ‘Il y a’: A Convergent Reading of René Girard and Emmanuel Levinas.” Forum Philosophicum 24, no. 1 (2019): 127–44.
Duns, Ryan. “‘In Despair, Despair Not’: Ways to God for a Secular Age.” Theological Studies 81, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 348–69.
Earle, Bo. “Performance of Negation, Negation of Performance: Death and Desire in Kojève, Bataille and Girard.” Comparative Literature Studies 39, no. 1 (2002): 48–66.
Gans, Eric. “René Girard and the Deferral of Violence.” Forum Philosophicum 23, no. 2 (2018): 155–70.
Harries, Jim. “A Foundation for African Theology That Bypasses the West: The Writings of René Girard.” Evangelical Review of Theology 44, no. 2 (2020): 149–63.
Haven, Cynthia L. “Introduction: Socrates in the Digital Age.” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 01–06. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Haven, Cynthia L., and Artur Sebastian Rosman. “Postscript: ‘René Girard Never Played the Great Man,’ Says Biographer (2016).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 195–202. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Johnson, Adam J. “René Girard.” In T&T Clark Companion to Atonement, edited by Adam J. Johnson, 505–8. London: T&T Clark, 2017.
Koci, Katerina. “Sacrifice and the Self: The Feminine Sacrificial Identity and the Case of Milada Horáková.” Feminist Theology 29, no. 2 (January 1, 2021): 156–69.
Lynch, Paul L. “Recovering Rhetoric: René Girard as Theorhetor.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 27, no. 1 (2020): 101–22.
Moosbrugger, Mathias. “Historian in Disguise: On Derrida, Durkheim and the Intellectual Ambition of René Girard.” Forum Philosophicum 24, no. 1 (2019): 5–24.
Perret, Bernard. “René Girard and the Epistemology of Revelation.” Forum Philosophicum 23, no. 2 (2018): 189–200.
Sander, Kai G. “Religion zwischen Frieden, Gewalt und Versöhnung: Ein fundamentaltheologischer Blick auf die Religionstheorie von René Girard.” Lebendiges Zeugnis 74, no. 1 (2019): 52–55.
Souillac, Geneviève. “Catastrophe and Conversion: Culture, Conflict, and Violence in the Hermeneutics of René Girard.” In Peace and War: Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives, edited by W. John Morgan and Alexandre Guilherme, 135–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
Wales, Jordan Joseph. “The Satanic and the Theomimetic: Distinguishing and Reconciling ‘Sacrifice’ in René Girard and Gregory the Great.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 27, no. 1 (2020): 177–214.
Wilmes, Andreas. “Demystifying the Negative: René Girard’s Critique of the ‘Humanization of Nothingness’.” Forum Philosophicum 24, no. 1 (2019): 91–126.
3) Reviews about single works of René Girard and Mimetic Theory
Antonelli, Emanuele. “Review of ‘Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops in Violence, Myth, and Madness’, by Mark R. Anspach.” Forum Philosophicum 24, no. 1 (2019): 221–24.
Hurlbert, Brandon. “Review of ‘René Girard and the Nonviolent God’, by Scott Cowdell.” Reviews in Religion & Theology 27, no. 4 (2020): 496–98.
Madigan, Patrick. “Review of ‘René Girard and the Nonviolent God’, by Scott Cowdell.” The Heythrop Journal 62, no. 1 (2021): 197–197.
4) Interviews with René Girard
Girard, René, and Rebecca Adams. “Violence, Difference, Sacrifice (1993).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 51–72. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, Mark R. Anspach, and Laurence Tacou. “A Passion Born of Rivalry (2008).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 153–65. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, Pierpaolo Antonello, and João Cezar De Castro Rocha. “I Have Always Tried to Think inside an Evolutionary Framework (2007).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 129–45. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Maria Stella Barberi. “How Should Mimetic Theory Be Applied? (2001).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 91–92. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Thomas F. Bertonneau. “The Logic of the Undecidable (1987).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 33–49. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Robert Doran. “Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11 (2008).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 167–79. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Philippe Godefroid. “Opera and Myth (1985).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 17–20. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Robert Pogue Harrison. “Shakespeare, Mimesis, and Desire (2005).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 93–108. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Robert Pogue Harrison. “Why Do We Fight? How Do We Stop? (2005).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 109–24. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Cynthia L. Haven. “Christianity Will Be Victorious, But Only in Defeat (2009).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 187–93. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, Ronald Hilton, Jane Arnold, Carl Rubino, and Eric Gans. “There Are Real Victims Behind the Text (Round Table, Stanford 1981).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 07–15. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Elisabeth Levy. “War Is Everywhere (2007).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 125–28. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Giulio Meotti. “The J’accuse of René Girard: The Audacious Ideas of a Great Thinker (2007).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 147–52. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, Pedro Sette-Câmara, Alvaro Velloso De Carvalho, and Olavo De Carvalho. “I Am First and Foremost a Social Scientist (2008).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 181–85. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Henri Tincq. “What Is Happening Today Is Mimetic Rivalry on a Global Scale (2001).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 85–89. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Michel Treguer. “Revelation Is Dangerous: It’s the Spiritual Equivalent of Nuclear Power (1996).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 73–84. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Girard, René, and Scott A. Walter, “Technological Power in the Post-Sacrificial World (1985).” In Conversations with René Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven, 21–31. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
5) Books with references to René Girard
Biney, Moses O., Kenneth N. Ngwa, and Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2021.
Bogel, Fredric V. The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Brague, Rémi. Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.
Bronner, Simon J. Jewish Cultural Studies. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Brún, Fionntán, de. Revivalism and Modern Irish Literature: The Anxiety of Transmission and the Dynamics of Renewal. Cork: Cork University Press, 2019.
Chow, Rey. Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012.
Clauss, James J., and Sarah Iles Johnston. Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Doran, Robert. The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Dragojević, Mila. Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Dufour, Frédérick Guillaume. La Sociologie Du Nationalisme: Relations, Cognition, Comparaisons et Processus. Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2019.
Dumouchel, Paul, and Luisa Damiano. Living with Robots. Translated by Malcolm Debevoise. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Eide, Marian. Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Faure, Bernard. Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Forsberg, Randall Caroline Watson, Matthew Evangelista, and Neta C. Crawford. Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Gellrich, Jesse. The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, republished electronically 2019.
Görlach, Alexander. Homo Empathicus: On Scapegoats, Populists, and Saving Democracy. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2021.
Jacobson, Carol R., and Adam W. Pryor. Anticipating God’s New Creation: Essays in Honor of Ted Peters. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2020.
Jameson, Fredric. The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972, reprinted 2020.
Lake, Christina Bieber. Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.
Lamb, Michael, and Brian A. Williams. Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2019.
Levering, Matthew. The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar: An Introduction to His Trilogy. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019.
McCarthy, Eli S. A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2020.
McLaren, Brian D. Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It. New York: St. Martin’s Essentials, 2021.
Monod, David. Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Montesano, Michael J., Terence Chong, and Mark Shu Xun Heng. After the Coup: The National Council for Peace and Order Era and the Future of Thailand. ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019.
Najemy, John M. Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Neelakanta, Vanita. Retelling the Siege of Jerusalem in Early Modern England. University of Delaware Press, 2019.
Olson, Glending. Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986, republished electronically 2019.
O’Sullivan, Michael. The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Patrick, Gnana. Public Theology: Indian Concerns, Perspectives, and Themes. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2020.
Paulson, Steven D. Luther’s Outlaw God: Volume 2: Hidden in the Cross. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2019.
Perreault, Jean-Philippe. Étudier La Religion Au Québec: Regards d’ici et d’ailleurs. Presses de l’Université Laval, 2020.
Piatt, Christian. Surviving the Bible: A Devotional for the Church Year 2020. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2019.
Rehm, Rush. Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Robinson, M. Michelle. Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Rose, Peter W. Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Segal, Charles. Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986, republished electronically 2019.
Tatar, Maria. Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Vizenor, Gerald. Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
Wariboko, Nimi. Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory. University of Rochester Press, 2019.
Westengard, Laura. Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
Winkler, John J., and Froma I. Zeitlin. Nothing to Do with Dionysos?: Athenian Drama in Its Social Context. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76818.
Wood, David. Reoccupy Earth: Notes toward an Other Beginning. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019.
6) Articles with references to René Girard
“A Special Feature by Friends and Colleagues: Richard Macksey: Ave Atque Vale.” The Hopkins Review 13, no. 2 (2020): 163–94.
Alworth, David J. “Supermarket Sociology.” New Literary History 41, no. 2 (2010): 301–27.
Anderson, Leslie. “Sisters, Eroticism, and the Red Cat: Homosocial Female Bonds in Troubadour Poetry.” Tenso 34, no. 1 (2019): 55–69.
Arellano, Ignacio. “Introducción. Burlas y Veras En El Siglo de Oro. Teorías y Prácticas.” Hispanófila 185, no. 1 (September 3, 2019): 5–9.
Blakely, Jason. “Nihilism as Rightwing Political Rhetoric.” Theory & Event 22, no. 1 (January 24, 2019): 92–114.
Block, Ed. “Drama and Religious Experience, or Why Theater Still Matters.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 8, no. 1 (January 31, 2005): 65–89.
Bohrer, Karl Heinz, Sean Nye, and Rita Felski. “The Tragic: A Question of Art, Not Philosophy of History.” New Literary History 41, no. 1 (2010): 35–51.
Cabañas, Miguel A. “A Trauma’s History: Pablo Escobar as Ghostly Myth and the Neoliberal Social Contract.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 53, no. 1 (2019): 165–85.
Cahan, Jean Axelrad. “Can Antisemitism Have a Sacral Quality? Reflections on Wistrich and Others.” Antisemitism Studies 3, no. 1 (2019): 66–94.
Chambers, Ross. “Adventures in Malley Country: Concerning Peter Carey’s ‘My Life as a Fake’.” Cultural Studies Review 11, no. 1 (2005): 27–51.
Conrad Bracken, Rachel. “Influenza and Embodied Sociality in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature.” American Literary History 32, no. 3 (2020): 507–34.
Danta, Chris. “‘Like a Dog. . . like a Lamb’: Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Kafka and Coetzee.” New Literary History 38, no. 4 (2007): 721–37.
Desmond, John F. “Flannery O’Connor and Simone Weil: A Question of Sympathy.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 8, no. 1 (January 31, 2005): 102–16.
Eduardo Carreño, Juan. “‘My Name Is Legion’: The Biblical Episode of Gerasene in the Light of Thomas Aquinas’s Theory of Angelic Location.” The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 84, no. 2 (2020): 233–61.
Finkelstein, Norman. “The Sacred and the Real in The Tablets of Armand Schwerner.” American Literary History 17, no. 2 (2005): 259–79.
Fleming, Chris, and John O’Carroll. “Symmetrical Modernities?” Cultural Studies Review 12, no. 1 (2006): 234–39.
Frank, William A. “Western Irreligion and Resources for Culture in Catholic Religion.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 7, no. 1 (January 8, 2004): 17–44.
Franklin-Brown, Mary. “Review of ‘Courtly Seductions, Modern Subjections: Troubadour Literature and the Medieval Construction of the Modern World’, by Fidel Fajardo-Acosta.” Tenso 29, no. 1 (2014): 88–94.
Gans, Eric. “World War II and the Victimary Era.” In Apocalypse Deferred, edited by Jeremiah L. Alberg, 41–54. Girard and Japan. University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
Gans, Eric Lawrence. “Qu’est-Ce Que La Littérature, Aujourd’hui?” New Literary History 38, no. 1 (2007): 33–41.
Gibbs, Anna. “Panic! Affect Contagion, Mimesis and Suggestion in the Social Field.” Cultural Studies Review 14, no. 2 (2008): 130-45-130–45.
Goldman, Peter. “Living Words: Iconoclasm and Beyond in John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding.” New Literary History 33, no. 3 (2002): 461–89.
Goux, Jean-Joseph. “Untimely Islam: September 11th and the Philosophies of History.” SubStance 37, no. 1 (2008): 52–71.
Guarino, Thomas G. “The Return of Religion in Europe?: The Postmodern Christianity of Gianni Vattimo.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 14, no. 2 (April 7, 2011): 15–36.
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. “Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Worlds: Reclaiming an Unredeemed Utopian Motif.” New Literary History 37, no. 2 (2006): 299–318.
Havrylyshyn, Alexandra. “Troublesome Trials: How a Parisian Legal Practitioner Disrupted the Order of New France.” The William and Mary Quarterly 78, no. 1 (2021): 45–78.
Hénaff, Marcel. “Global Terror, Global Vengeance?” Translated by Roxanne Lapidus and Robert Doran. SubStance 37, no. 1 (2008): 72–97.
Hoffman, Donald L. “Queer as Folk.” Arthuriana 29, no. 2 (2019): 24–46.
Hölscher, Stefan. “Problematische Wiederholungen und mindere Mimesis bei Rabih Mroué und Xavier Le Roy.” Forum Modernes Theater 30, no. 1 (2019): 60–78.
Houen, Alex. “Reckoning Sacrifice in ‘War on Terror’ Literature.” American Literary History 28, no. 3 (2016): 574–95.
Hren, Joshua. “Truth and Lies in a Chestertonian Sense: Father Brown and the Fault of the Depraved Saint.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 16, no. 1 (December 21, 2012): 151–63.
Jiang, Yuqin. “Ecotech, Alienation, and Science Realism in the Chinese Cyborg Novel Waste Tide.” Comparative Literature Studies 57, no. 4 (2020): 655–69.
Kamens, Sarah R. “Postcolonialism and (Anti)Psychiatry: On Hearing Voices and Ghostwriting.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 27, no. 3 (2020): 253–65.
Kaplan, Grant. “Locating Newman: Faith and Reason in Newman and Johannes Kuhn.” Newman Studies Journal 16, no. 1 (2019): 5–27.
Kendall, Sara. “Immanent Enemies, Imminent Crimes: Targeted Killing as Humanitarian Sacrifice.” In Criminals and Enemies, edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, 130–54. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.
Landy, Joshua. “Conditional Goods and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: How Literature (as a Whole) Could Matter Again.” SubStance 42, no. 2 (2013): 48–60.
Leslie, Stuart W. “Richard Macksey and the Humanities Center.” MLN 134, no. 5 (2019): 925–41.
Livingston, Paisley, and Andrea Sauchelli. “Philosophical Perspectives on Fictional Characters.” New Literary History 42, no. 2 (2011): 337–60.
Locke, Brian. “White and ‘Black’ versus Yellow: Metaphor and Blade Runner’s Racial Politics.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 65, no. 4 (December 12, 2009): 113–38.
Macé, Marielle, and Marlon Jones. “Ways of Reading, Modes of Being.” New Literary History 44, no. 2 (2013): 213–29.
Marr, Ryan. “Dinah Morris as Second Eve: The Fall and Redemption in Adam Bede.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 17, no. 3 (June 30, 2014): 80–102.
Monk, Nicholas. “Desert Gothic: Cormac McCarthy, Paul Bowles, and Don Waters.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal 17, no. 2 (September 27, 2019): 171–86.
Mussil, Stephan. “A Secret in Spite of Itself: Recursive Meaning in Henry James’s ‘The Figure in the Carpet.’” New Literary History 39, no. 4 (2008): 769–99.
Oberprantacher, Andreas. “Living in a State of Abandonment: The Anime Vexille’s Supplementary Apocalypse.” In Apocalypse Deferred, edited by Jeremiah L. Alberg, 136–48. Girard and Japan. University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
Olivetti, Kerry A. “Lost without Breadcrumbs: Family, Scapegoating, and the Rationalization of Abuse in Robert Eggers’s The Witch.” Marvels & Tales 34, no. 2 (2020): 239–55.
Plock, Vike Martina. “‘Knock Knock. War’s Where!’: History, Macbeth, and Finnegans Wake.” Joyce Studies Annual 2009, no. 1 (2009): 212–23.
Pound, Marcus, Ashley John Moyse, and Scott A. Kirkland. “An Introduction: Criminal/Enemy.” In Theology, Comedy, Politics. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2019.
Price, Matthew Burroughs. “Old Formalisms: Character, Structure, Action.” New Literary History 50, no. 2 (2019): 245–69.
Ramazani, Vaheed K. “Gender, War, and the Department Store: Zola’s ‘Au Bonheur Des Dames’.” SubStance 36, no. 2 (2007): 126–46.
Rosenberg, Randall S. “The Human Quest and Divine Disclosure According to Walker Percy: An Examination in Light of Lonergan.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 17, no. 1 (January 6, 2014): 63–89.
Sánchez Prado, Ignacio M. “The Persistence of the Transcultural: A Latin American Theory of the Novel from the National-Popular to the Global.” New Literary History 51, no. 2 (2020): 347–74.
Sarat, Austin, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey. “An Introduction: Criminal/Enemy.” In Criminals and Enemies, edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, 01–21. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019.
Sassian, David. “The Ritual in ‘The Novel in The Ring and the Book’: Browning, Henry James, Eric Gans.” Victorian Poetry 46, no. 3 (2008): 233–47.
Schey, Taylor. “Ritual Remembrance: Freud’s Primal Theory of Collective Memory.” SubStance 42, no. 1 (2013): 102–19.
Schlag, Martin, and Domenec Mele. “Gift, Economics, and Society: Elements for an Open Debate.” In A Catholic Spirituality for Business: The Logic of Gift, edited by Martin Schlag and Domenec Mele, 172–200. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019.
Shah, Bruno M. “Film, ‘Aesthetica Mortis’, and the Culture of Life: Picturing Motion After Modernity.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 20, no. 1 (December 21, 2016): 100–134.
Shullenberger, William. “Samson’s Bondage.” Milton Studies 61, no. 2 (September 6, 2019): 261–85.
Sicker, Philip, and Moshe Gold. “Preface.” Joyce Studies Annual 2020, no. 1 (2020): ix–xviii.
Somda, Domèbèimwin Vivien. Le développement humain intégral en Afrique à la lumière de la résurrection de la chair: une étude en référence à la théologie de Raymund Schwager. Harmattan Burkina Faso. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2020.
Stam, Robert, and Ella Shohat. “Whence and Whither Postcolonial Theory?” New Literary History 43, no. 2 (2012): 371–90.
Stępnik, Małgorzata. “The Golem Awakened.” Cultural Critique 111, no. 1 (2021): 26–51.
Stromberg, David. “‘A Narrator, But One With Extremely Pressing Personal Needs’: Narrative Drive and Affective Crisis in Salinger’s ‘Seymour; An Introduction’.” Journal of Narrative Theory 49, no. 2 (2019): 193–222.
Vattimo, Gianni, Santiago Zabala, and Yaakov Mascetti. “‘Weak Thought’ and the Reduction of Violence: A Dialogue with Gianni Vattimo.” Common Knowledge 25, no. 1 (2019): 92–103.
Woltmann, Suzy. “‘Pointless, Ridiculous Monster’: Monstrous Abjection and Event in ‘The House of Asterion’ and ‘Grendel’.” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 9, no. 1 (2020): 76–96.
Zerhoch, Dominic. “Kreuzige Ihn!”- Eine Blick-Akt-Analyse der Passion Christi am Beispiel von Hermann Nitschs Kreuzigungsaktionen.” Forum Modernes Theater 30, no. 1 (2019): 178–92.
7) Books applying the mimetic theory
Fornari, Giuseppe. Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 1: The Great Mediations of the Classical World. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Michigan State University Press, 2021.
Fornari, Giuseppe. Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2: Christianity and Modernity. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Michigan State University Press, 2021.
Grande, Per Bjørnar. Desire: Flaubert, Proust, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lana Del Rey. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. Michigan State University Press, 2020.
Hodge, Joel. Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity. Edited by Chris Fleming and Scott Cowdell. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
8) Articles applying the mimetic theory
Alberg, Jeremiah L. “A Light Shall Appear in the East: An Introduction to This Volume.” In Apocalypse Deferred, edited by Jeremiah L. Alberg, 1–16. Girard and Japan. University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
Andrade, Gabriel. “A Girardian Approach to LaVeyan Satanism: Theological Perspectives.” Irish Theological Quarterly 86, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 50–62.
Dickinson, Colby. “Polarized Readings of René Girard: Utilizing Girardian Thought to Break a Theological and Philosophical Impasse.” Forum Philosophicum 24, no. 1 (2019): 25–42.
Dinçel, Burç Idem. “Lineaments of Mimetic Desire: Ulysses in Turkish Retranslations.” Joyce Studies Annual 2020, no. 1 (2020): 72–114.
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