Violence and dystopia : mimesis and sacrifice in contemporary Western dystopian narratives

Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphas...

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Main Author: Cojocaru, Daniel
Other Authors: Cunningham, Valentine
Published: University of Oxford 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547992