TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cojocaru,Daniel
TI  - Violence and dystopia: mimesis and sacrifice in contemporary western dystopian narratives 
SN  - 9781443883528
AV  - PN56.D94 C65 2015
U1  - 809.38762 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Mimesis in literature
KW  - Sacrifice in literature
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of Ren�e Girard's mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard's theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard's seminal novel Crash (1973), Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (1996) and Rant (2007), and Brad Anderson's film The Machinist (2004). It is ar
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