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Deceit, Desire, and the Novel : Self and Other in Literary Structure - 9780801818301

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel : Self and Other in Literary Structure

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Author: Girard, Rene (Stanford University)

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Published on 27 May 1976 by Johns Hopkins University Press in the United States.

Paperback | 328 pages
216 x 140 x 20 | 462g

This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, including fashion, advertising, and propaganda techniques. In considering such aspects, the author goes beyond the domain of pure aesthetics and offers an interpretation of some basic cultural problems of our time.'