Desire : Flaubert, Proust, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lana Del Rey / Per Bjørnar Grande.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grande, Per Bjørnar, 1959- Author.

Series:

Breakthroughs in mimetic theory.

Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Desire: Flaubert, Proust, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lana Del Rey is about understanding how desire works in our lives"-- Provided by publisher.

"Desire can take many forms. Hegel related desire to acceptance, Nietzsche to power, and Freud to the erotic. In novels and plays by Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller and music by Lana Del Rey, desire operates in a complex, slippery way that eludes philosophical and psychoanalytic attempts to pin it down. These and other great works of literature corroborate René Girard's understanding of desire as taking shape "according to the other's desire." The mimetic approach frees desire from the preconceptions of both subject- and object-oriented psychologies and puts literary criticism in touch with the concrete substance of fictional narratives. Drawing on both modern masterpieces and iconic works of contemporary pop culture, Per Bjørnar Grande sketches a Girardian phenomenology of desire, one that sheds new light on the frustrating and repetitive nature of human relations in a world of vanishing taboos." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The nature of desire

Desire in Madame Bovary

Proustian desire

Desire in The great Gatsby

Desire in Death of a salesman

Desire in Lana Del Rey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62895-366-7

1-60917-600-6

OCLC:

1156058587