Intimate domain : desire, trauma, and mimetic theory / Martha J. Reineke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reineke, Martha J., author.

Series:

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mimesis in literature.

Girard, René, 1923-2015.

Girard, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the relational dynamics (maternal, sibling, and paternal) in three narratives, Proust's In search of lost time, Sophocles's Antigone, and Kristeva's The old man and the wolves, to amplify Rene Girard's mimetic hypothesis with the resources of psychoanalysis.

Contents:

Preface : the family, feminist scholarship, and mimetic theory

Introduction : family matters

In search of lost time. Mothers ; The eyes of a parricide ; Of madeleines, mothers, and Mountjouvain ; The journey home is through the world

Antigone. Siblings ; The house of Labdacus : on kinship and sacrifice ; Trauma and the Theban cycle ; Antigone and the ethics of intimacy

The old man and the wolves. Fathers ; Not a country for old men : violence and mimesis in Santa Varvara ; To glimpse a world without wolves : from conflict to compassion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 11, 2014).

ISBN:

1-60917-415-1

OCLC:

888538971