Among the Outsiders.

Studies in Scapegoat Figure Typologies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-631-92288-0
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

Reihe: Cross-Roads

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrzej, Fretschel-Hojarski

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wojcik, Barbara

Nycz, Ryszard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

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.