The Palgrave Handbook Of Mimetic Theory And Religion

THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF MIMETIC THEORY AND RELIGION Edited by James Alison and Wolfgang Palaver The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion James Alison Wolfgang Palaver • Editors The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion Editors James Alison Independent Scholar Madrid Spain Executive Editor Trevor Cribben Merrill California Institute of Technology Pasadena USA Wolfgang Palaver University of Innsbruck Innsbruck Austria and Managing Editor Sheelah Treflé Hidden Heythrop College London UK ISBN 978-1-137-55280-8 ISBN 978-1-137-53825-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53825-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017944611 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: “Agnus Dei Masterpics,” Francisco de Zurbaran, Masterpics/Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. The registered company address is: 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, U.S.A. EDITORIAL BOARD Jeremiah Alberg Trevor Cribben Merrill Paul Dumouchel William A. Johnsen Andrew McKenna Martha Reineke Thomas Ryba Sheelah Treflé Hidden v GIRARD’S WORKS Note: Throughout this volume, the original (French) publication date of Girard’s principal works will be given along with the title in English: Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1961). Below is a comprehensive, but not exhaustive, chronological annotated list of Girard’s publications, with both original and English references. Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque. Paris: Grasset, 1961; Deceit, Desire, and the Novel. Translated by Yvonne Freccero, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965. Girard’s groundbreaking analysis of five major European novelists—Cervantes, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Proust—who described the wor