Among the Outsiders

Following in the footsteps of Frazer, Freud, and Burke, René Girard proposes a novel hermeneutics of scapegoating which not only gives voice to the victims in the face of unjust persecution, but likewise unmasks the generative function that belies its frequently lethal dénouement depicted in texts of persecution.

Auteur

Andrzej Fretschel-Hojarski completed his studies at Loyola University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Jagiellonian University. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies in Cracow.

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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter One - Le mal ontologique: Scapegoating and Literature

Chapter Two - A Threatening Other

Chapter Three - Doubles and the Apogeum of Desire

Chapter Four - Antiheroic Maids and Prisoners

Chapter Five - Figurae Christi: The Three J's

Chapter Six - A Third Way

Epilogue: Literature as Equipment for Living

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