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Cynthia L Haven
Some academics beguile you with a few interesting ideas while other academics shake your world. Rene Girard belongs in the second camp. He demonstrates the uniqueness and indispensability of Christian…
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Rene Girard
A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desire
Rene Girard eludes easy categories, bridging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, sociology…
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Cynthia L. Haven
Joseph Brodsky’s poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and war hero, George Kline. This is…
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Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endlessly enriching. An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw…
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Czesaw Miosz (1911-2004) felt that part of his role as a poet and critic was to bear witness to bloodshed and terror as well as to beauty. Czesaw Miosz: Conversations…
Drawing on interviews with Girard and his colleagues, Evolution of Desire: A Life of Rene Girard provides an essential introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most controversial and original…
The first book to look at Czes+/-aw Mi+/-osz’s life through a California lens –
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Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. In these interviews from 1972 to 1995, he…
Dr Rene Girard
French theorist Rene Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee…
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