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Desire, violence & divinity in modern southern fiction : Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy

In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fictionùKatherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percyùexpose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic violence developed by cultural and literary critic RenT Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model. Mimetic desire may lead in turn to rivalry, cruelty, and ultimately community-sanctioned ùand sometimes ritually sanctifiedùvictimization of those deemed out.

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  • "In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fictionùKatherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percyùexpose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic violence developed by cultural and literary critic RenT Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model. Mimetic desire may lead in turn to rivalry, cruelty, and ultimately community-sanctioned ùand sometimes ritually sanctifiedùvictimization of those deemed out."@en
  • ""In this study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction - Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy - expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic violence developed by cultural and literary critic Rene Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model."--Jacket."

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