Bibliography of Generative Anthropology

Basic Works

Gans, Eric. The End of Culture: Toward a Generative Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

------ The Origin of Language: A Formal Theory of Representation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

------ Originary Thinking: Elements of Generative Anthropology. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.

------ The Scenic Imagination: Originary Thinking from Hobbes to the Present Day. Stanford University Press, 2007.

------ Science and Faith: The Anthropology of Revelation. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990.

------ Signs of Paradox: Irony, Resentment, and Other Mimetic Structures. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.

------ Chronicles of Love and Resentment 1-350+ www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/home.html

Girard, René. Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque. Paris, Grasset 1961. English: Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure. Tr. Yvonne Freccero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press [1965].

------ La violence et le sacré. Paris, B. Grasset [1972]. English: Violence and the Sacred. Tr. Patrick Gregory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

------ Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde; recherches avec Jean-Michel Oughourlian et Guy Lefort. Paris: B. Grasset, 1978. English: Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World: Research Undertaken in Collaboration with Jean-Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort. Tr. Stephen Bann (Books II & III) and Michael Metteer (Book I). London: Athlone, 1987.
 

Other Works of Interest

Bailie, Gil. Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads. New York: Crossroad, 1995.

Bandera, Cesareo. The Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

Burkert, Walter. Homo necans: interpretationen altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen. Berlin, New York, De Gruyter, 1972. English: Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Tr. Peter Bing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Dennis, Ian. Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction. Basingstoke, U. K.: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Gans, Eric Lawrence. Essais d'esthétique paradoxale. Paris: Gallimard, 1977.

Girard, René. Le bouc émissaire. Paris: B. Grasset, 1982. English translation: The Scapegoat. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

------ A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

------ "To double business bound" : Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Golsan, Richard J. René Girard and Myth: An Introduction. New York and  London: Routledge, 2002.

Goodhart, Sandor. Sacrificing Commentary: Reading the End of Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Livingston, Paisley. Models of Desire: René Girard and the Psychology of Mimesis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

McKenna, Andrew J. Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Oughourlian, Jean-Michel. Un mime nommé désir: hystérie, transe, possession, adorcisme. Paris: B. Grasset, 1982. English: The Puppet of Desire: The Psychology of Hysteria, Possession, and Hypnosis. Tr & intro Eugene Webb. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Siebers, Tobin. The Ethics of Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

------ The Mirror of Medusa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

------ The Romantic Fantastic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Violent origins / Walter Burkert, René Girard & Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. Edited by Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, with an introduction by Burton Mack and a commentary by Renato Rosaldo. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.

Williams, James G. (ed.) The Girard Reader. New York: Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 1997.

Selected Articles

Bertonneau, Thomas F. "Consecrated in Blood/Unjustly Accused: The Ethical Paradox of WCW's In the American Grain (An Anthropoetics)." Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist/Objectivist Tradition, Orono, ME. vol. 12 no. 1, 1993 Spring. 7-30

---. "Life in a Human Universe: Charles Olson's (Post) Modernism in Context (An Anthropoetics)." Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist/Objectivist Tradition, Orono, ME. vol. 13 no. 3, 1994 Winter. 117-52

---. "The Logic of the Undecidable: An Interview with René Girard. Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies, Los Angeles, CA. vol. 5, 1987. 1-24

---. "The Origin of Language and the Generative Anthropology of E. L. Gans: An Introduction." Michigan Academician, Ann Arbor, MI. vol. 28 no. 3, 1996 Summer. 419-30

---. "Orpheus at the Picnic: Ordinary Pleasure and Originary Murder in Wallace Stevens's 'A Primitive Like an Orb' (An Anthropoetics)." Michigan Academician, Ann Arbor, MI. vol. 26 no. 3, 1994 Summer. 431-47

---. "The Sign of Knowledge in Our Time: Violence, Man, and Language in Paterson, Book I (An Anthropoetics)." William Carlos Williams Review, Austin, TX. vol. 21 no. 1, 1995 Spring. 33-51

---. "What Figure Costs: Stevens' 'The Idea of Order at Key West' (An Anthropoetics)." The Wallace Stevens Journal: A Publication of the Wallace Stevens Society, Potsdam, NY. vol. 19 no. 1, 1995 Spring. 51-70

Collins, Douglas P. "Proust's Anthropology of Chance." Kavanagh, Thomas M. (ed.). Chance, Culture and the Literary Text. Ann Arbor: Dept. of Romance Lang., Univ. of Michigan, 1994. 245 pp. 105-31

Foshay, Toby A. "Resentment and Apophasis: The Trace of the Other in Levinas, Derrida, and Gans." Berry, Philippa (ed. & introd.); Wernick, Andrew (ed.). Shadow of Spirit: Postmodernism and Religion. London: Routledge, 1992. xiv, 274 pp. 81-92

McKenna, Andrew J. "Deconstruction and the Resistance to Anthropology." Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies, Los Angeles, CA. vol. 8, 1990. 43-48

---. "Desire, Difference, and Deconstruction in Madame Bovary." Porter, Laurence M. (ed.); Gray, Eugene F. (ed.). Approaches to Teaching Flaubert's Madame Bovary. New York: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1995. xv, 167 pp. 106-13

Schneider, Matt. "Paper Money and Palimpsests: Thomas De Quincey and Representational Crisis." Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies, Los Angeles, CA. vol. 8, 1990. 49-62

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