Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema

Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema

The Legal Drama of the Scapegoat

Wilson, Eric M.

Springer Verlag, Singapore

04/2024

662

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9789819711550

15 a 20 dias

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Rene Girard, Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, and the goat song of Tragoidia.- 'El sueno de la razon produce monstruos' or, 'the dream of reason creates monsters': Two little piggies went to the Apocalypse in William Golding's Lord of the Flies.- 'Does anybody know anything about the law?': White male grown-ups in the wilderness and their regression to the state of nature in James Dickey's Deliverance.- 'A little law and order wouldn't hurt anybody around here': The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and High Noon.- 'A woman only loves a real man': Metaphysical desire and the crisis of undifferentiation in Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Rashomon.- 'I just want to talk...': Liberalism, generative unanimity, and post-sacrificial scapegoating in 12 Angry Men.- 'You must always point...': The Post-Heroic Lawyer as scapegoat and scapegoater in Presumed Innocent, The Verdict, and Cape Fear.- The telling of lies and the casting of lots: Franz Kafka's The Trial and the eternal un-decidability of the scapegoat.- '...Why do we, all of us, have to keep judging and being judged?': The scapegoat and the scapegoater in Albert Camus' The Stranger and The Fall.- 'Out There': Monstrous doubles and the folie a deux in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.- The Good Murderer Gary Gilmore: The re-sacralization of the scapegoat in the age of public reason.- Spare a Thought for the Hangman: The apocalypse of Rene Girard.
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Rene Girard;Law and Literature;Law and Film;Scapegoat Mechanism;Judicial Modernity;Mimesis;Legal Drama;Religious Drama;Post-secular Society;Mimetic Theory;Ritualistic Sacrifice;Capital Punishment;Law-as-Literature;Law-in-Literature;Cultural Studies;Sociology of Religion