The Scapegoat

"[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal." -- John Yoder, Religion and Literature.

About the author

René Girard is a Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. Two of his books, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, which was also translated by Yvonne Freccero, and Violence and the Sacred, are available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Product details

• Authors: Girard, Rena(c) Girard, Rene Girard, René Girard
• Assisted by: Yvonne Freccero (Translation), Freccero Yvonne (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1986
• EAN: 9780801839177
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-3917-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy of religion, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -