The Girard Reader (61 page)

"The Bible Is Not a Myth."
Literature and Belief 4
( 1984): 7-15.

"Generative Violence and the Extinction of Social Order (Dynamics of Mimetic Rivalry

Exposed by the Gospels)."
Salmagundi: A Quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences

63/64
( 1984): 204-37.

"Review of '
Le 19e siècle à travers les âges
,' by Philippe Murray."
Commentaire 27
(

Autumn 1984): 613-16.

"
Exorciser la violence
."
Le Figaro
, April 15, 1985, 2.

"
La Différence Franco-Américaine
."
L'Expansion
. Special issue entitled "
Demain la France
"

( October/November 1984): 275-81.

"
Faits divers et bonne nouvelle
."
Autrement 75
( 1985): 180-90.

"Nietzsche and Contradiction."
Stanford Italian Review 6
, no. 1-2 ( 1986): 5365.

"What Is the Question?"
The Stanford Magazine 14
, no. 4 ( 1986): 60.

"
Dieu et l'esprit moderne
."
L'Express
, April 11, 1986, 36-38.

"
Le jeu des secrets interdits
. (Review of Milan Kundera)."
Le Nouvel Observateur 1150
(

1986): 102-3.

"
La morne vengeance de Hamlet
."
Les Saisons de Saint-Jean 15
, 16 ( 1986): 23-38,5-35.

"The Scapegoat Transformed: The Gospel Passion as Victim's Story."
Cross Currents 1
(

Spring 1986): 29.

"
Quelques clés des désordres collectifs
."
Le Figaro 9
, no. 10 ( May 1987): 18.

"
Serres, le philosophe en marche
." (Review of Michel Serres, Statues).
Le Figaro Littéraire
, December 7, 1987, 3f.

"Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation."
Zyzzyva 3
, no. 1 ( 1987): 98-104.

"
Un équilibre périlleux: essai d'interprétation du comique
."
Les Saisons de Saint-Jean 20
(

1987): 5-21.

"
Violence et société
."
Revue des Deux Mondes 12
, no. 35 ( 1988): 91-98.

"Des chiffres et des hommes." (Review of: Georges-Hubert de Radkowski,
Métamorphoses

de la Valeur
).
L'Express
, May 13-19, 1988, 186.

"'Génie et démons du christianisme,' in 'Fanatisme: la menace religieuse.'"
Le Nouvel
Observateur
, October 5-11, 1989, 20.

"Love Delights in Praises: A Reading of 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona.'"
Philosophy and

Literature 13
, no. 2 ( 1989): 231-47.

"Do You Love Him Because I Do?: Mimetic Interaction in Shakespeare's Comedies."
Helios

17
, no. 1 ( Spring 1990): 89-107.

"The Crime and Conversion of Leontes in 'The Winter's Tale.'"
Religion and Literature 22
, no. 2-3 ( 1990): 193-219.

"Innovation and Repetition."
SubStance 62-63
( 1990): 7-20.

"
Religion et Démocratie
."
Le Nouvel Observateur
, March 1990.

"
Croyez-vous vous même à votre propre théorie?
"
Le Règle du Jeu 1
( May 1990): 254-77.

"Love and Hate in 'Yvain.' "
Recherches et Recontres 1
( 1990): 249-62.

"Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar.' "
Salmagundi: A

Quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences 88-89
( 1991): 399-419.

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"
L'apothéose des victimes
."
Le Nouvel Observateur
, January 23-29, 1992, 5455.

"Is There Anti-Semitism in the Gospels?"
Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of

Contemporary Approaches 1
, no. 3 ( November 1993): 339-52.

"Mythology, Violence, Christianity."
Paragrana: International Zeitschrift für Historiscbe
Antbropologie 4
, no. 2 ( 1995): 103-16.

"Are the Gospels Mythical?"
First Things 62
( April 1996): 27-31.

"Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire."
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and

Culture 3
( Spring 1996): 1-20.

Recent Books by Girardian Scholars

The following list includes works that explicate, apply, or criticize the mimetic scapegoat

theory (English, French, and German only).

English

Alison, James.
Knowing Jesus
Springfield, Ill.: Templegate, 1993.

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Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination
New York: Crossroad,

1996.

Bailie, Gil.
Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads
. New York: Crossroad, 1995.

Bandera, Ceséreo.
The Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern

Literary Fiction
. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

Chilton, Bruce.
The Temple of Jesus
. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press,

1992.

Golsan, Richard J.
René Girard and Myth: An Introduction
. New York: Garland, 1993.

Goodhart, Sandor.
Sacrificing Commentary
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,

1996.

Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G.
Sacred Violence: Paul's Hermeneutic of the Cross
. Minneapolis:

Fortress, 1992.

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The Gospel and the Sacred: Poetics of Violence in Mark
. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

Kaptein, Roel.
On the Way of Freedom. Blackrock, Co.
Dublin, Ireland: Columba, 1993.

Livingston, Paisley.
Models of Desire: René Girard and the Psychology of Mimesis
.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

McCracken, David.
The Scandal of the Gospels: Jesus, Story, and Offense
. New York:

Oxford, 1994.

McKenna, Andrew.
Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction
. Urbana

and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Oughourlian, Jean-Michel.
The Puppet of Desire: The Psychology of Hysteria, Possession,

and Hypnosis
. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991.

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Simonse, Simon.
Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in the

Southeastern Sudan
. Leiden and New York: Brill, 1992.

Smith, Theophus, and Mark Wallace, eds.
Curing Violence
. Sonoma, Calif.: Polebridge,

1994.

Webb, Eugene.
The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France
.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.

Williams, James G.,
The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred: Liberation from the Myth of

Sanctioned Violence
. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991; Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press

International, 1995.

Wink, Walter,
Engaging the Powers
. Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress, 1992.

French

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre.
La panique
. Paris: Laboratoires Delagrange, 1991.

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Le sacrifice et l'envie: Le libéralisme aux prises avec la justice sociale
. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1992.

Lagrange, François.
René Girard ou la christianisation des sciences humaines
. New York:

Peter Lang, 1994.

German

Baudler, Georg.
Töten oder Lieben: Gewalt und Gewaltlosigkeit in Religion und Christentum
.

Munich: Kösel, 1994.

Dieckmann, Bernhard.
Judas als Sündenbock: eine verhängnisvolle Geschicbte von Angst

und Vergeltung
. Munich: Kösel, 1991.

Niewiadomski, J., and W. Palaver, eds.
Dramatiscbe Erlösungslehre: Ein Symposion.

Innsbruck
, Vienna: Tyrolia, 1992.

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Vom Fluch und Segen der Sündenböcke: Raymund Schwager zum 60. Geburtstag
.

Thaur: Kulturverlag, 1995.

Palaver, Wolfgang.
Politik und Religion bei Thomas Hobbes: Eine Kritik aus der Sicht der

Tbeorie Girards
. Innsbruck: Tyrolia, 1991.

Schwager, Raymund.
Braucben wir einen Sündenbock? Gewalt und Erlösung in den

biblischen Schriften
, 3d ed. Thaur: Kulturverlag, 1994.

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Jesus im Heilsdrama: Entwurf einer biblischen Erlösungslehre
. Innsbruck, Vienna:

Tyrolia-Verlag, 1990.

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Dem Netz des Jägers entronnen: Wie Jesus sein Leben verstand
,
erzählt
von Raymund Schwager. Freiburg: Herder, 1991.

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