Anthropoetics

I, 1 - XI, 2

Author Index

Abdulhamid, Ammar. A Dialogue on the Middle East and Other Subjects (with Eric Gans). 7, 2

Amselle, Jean-Loup. Africa: A Theme(s) Park. 9, 1

Andrade, Gabriel. The Transformation of Kinship in the New Testament. 11, 1

Bartlett, Andrew. Nuclear Warfare in the Movies. 10, 1

Bertonneau, Thomas F. Like Hypatia Before the Mob: Desire, Resentment, and Sacrifice in Henry James' The Bostonians. (An Anthropoetics). 1, 1

---------. Two Footnotes: The Double Necessity of Girard and Gans. 2, 1

---------. Celsus, the First Nietzsche: Resentment and the Case Against Christianity. 3, 1

---------. "The Mysteries of Mimicry": Sublimity and Morality in The Golden Bowl. 4, 2

---------. Monstrous Theologies: The Theme of Anti-Sacrifice in the Sci-Fi Pulps. 6, 1

---------. The Acts of an Oedipus: Power, Language, and Sacrifice in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. 7, 1

---------. Post-Imperium: The Rhetoric of Liberation and the Return of Sacrifice in the Work of V. S. Naipaul. 8, 2

---------. Intellectualism and the Gnostic Debacle: Julian the Apostate in the Modern Literary Imagination. 10, 1

---------. Of Which We May Speak: Meditations on Irony, Eccentricity, and Faith. 11, 2

Brotto, Fabio. Anti-pathos: On Italo Svevo's Zeno's Conscience. 9, 1

Collins, Douglas. L'Amour intellectuel de Dieu: Lacan's Spinozism and Religious Revival in Recent French Thought. 3, 1

---------. Justice of the Pieces: Deconstruction as a Social Psychology. 4, 1

---------. From Myth to Market: Bataille's Americas Lost and Found. 5, 2

---------. The Great Effects of Small Things: Insignificance With Immanence in Critical Theory. 8, 2

Eisel, Erik. "In the Beginning was the Word...": The Question of the Origin of Language in Goethe's Faust. 5, 1

Eshelman, RaoulPerformatism, or the End of Postmodernism. 6, 2

---------. Performatism in Architecture. On Framing and the Spatial Realization of Ostensivity. 7, 2

---------. Performatism in the Movies (1997-2003). 8, 2

---------. Checking out of the Epoch: Performatism in Olga Tokarczuk's Hotel Capital vs. Postmodernism in Ali Smith's Hotel World. 10, 2

---------. After Postmodernism: Performatism in Literature. 11, 2

Featherstone, Mark. Speed and Violence: Sacrifice in Virilio, Derrida, and Girard. 6, 2

Fleming, Chris and John O'Carroll. Notes on Generative Anthropology: Towards an Ethics of the Hypothesis. 8, 2

---------. Understanding Anti-Americanism. 9, 2

---------. Romanticism. 11, 1

Foshay, Tobias. Intentionality, Originarity, and the "Always Already" in Derrida and Gans. 4, 1

Gans, EricThe Unique Source of Religion and Morality. 1, 1

---------. Mimetic Paradox and the Event of Human Origin. 1, 2

---------. Introductory Remarks. 2, 1

---------. Plato and the Birth of Conceptual Thought. 2, 2

---------. Originary Narrative. 3, 2

---------. The Little Bang: The Early Origin of Language. 5, 1

---------. The Sacred and the Social: Defining Durkheim's Anthropological Legacy. 6, 1

---------. A Dialogue on the Middle East and Other Subjects (with Ammar Abdulhamid). 7, 2 

Girard, René with Markus Müller. Interview. 2, 1

---------. On Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (translated by Robert Doran). 10, 1

Goldman, Peter. The Sign of the Cross in John Bunyan's Grace Abounding. 3, 2

---------. Christian Mystery and Responsibility: Gnosticism in Derrida's The Gift of Death. 4, 1

---------. Hamlet's Ghost: A Review Article (Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton UP, 2001). 7, 1

---------. Consumer Society and its Discontents: The Truman Show and The Day of the Locust. 10, 2

Hurst, Cecily. The Origin of Language in Chinese Thought. 6, 2

Iser, Wolfgang. The Significance of Fictionalizing. 3, 2

---------. The Use of Fiction in Literary and Generative Anthropology: Interview by Richard van Oort. 3, 2

Katz, Adam. The Originary Scene, Sacrifice, and the Politics of Normalization in A.B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani. 7, 2

---------. Remembering Amalek: 9/11 and Generative Thinking. 10, 2

Koper, Peter T. The Girl by the Water: Images of Aphrodite as Mediated Desire. 9, 2

Ludwigs, Marina. The Limit of Explanation: Following the "Why" to its Epistemological Terminus. 10, 1

McKenna, Andrew. Religious Differance. 4, 1

---------. Scandal, Resentment, Idolatry: The Underground Psychology of Terrorism. 8, 1

Meeker, Stacey. Utopia Limited: An Anthropological Response to Richard Rorty. 4, 2

Mishler, William. Bone of the Lamb, Blood of the Lamb: Ibsen's Brand and Generative Anthropology. 3, 1

---------. The Question of the Origin of Language in René Girard, Eric Gans, and Kenneth Burke. 5, 1

Morrissey, Christopher S. Oedipus the Cliché: Aristotle on Tragic Form and Content. 9, 1

Müller, Markus. Interview with René Girard. 2, 1

---------. Reconsidering the Fantastic: An Anthropological Approach. 2, 2

Ouzgane, Lahoucine. Mimesis and Moral Agency in Wharton's The House of Mirth. 3, 2

---------. Dreiser and Sister Carrie's Kingdom of Greatness. 10, 1

Perlmutter, Dawn. The Sacrificial Aesthetic: Blood Rituals from Art to Murder. 5, 2

---------. Skandalon 2001: The Religious Practices of Modern Satanists and Terrorists. 7, 2

---------. The Forensics of Sacrifice: A Symbolic Analysis of Ritualistic Crime. 9, 2

---------. Mujahideen Blood Rituals: The Religious and Forensic Symbolism of Al Qaeda Beheading. 11, 2

Plutschow, Herbert. Archaic Chinese Sacrificial Practices in the Light of Generative Anthropology. 1, 2

---------. An Anthropological Perspective on the Japanese Tea Ceremony. 5, 1

---------. Tragic Victims in Japanese Religion, Politics, and the Arts. 6, 2

---------. Xunzi and the Ancient Chinese Philosophical Debate on Human Nature. 8, 1

Rapoport, David.  The Four Waves of Rebel Terror and September 11. 8, 1

Schneider, Matthew. Sacred Ambivalence: Mimetology in Aristotle and Longinus. 1, 1

---------. Mimetic Polemicism: René Girard and Harold Bloom contra the "School of Resentment." A Review Essay. 2, 1

---------. "Wrung by sweet enforcement": Druid Stones and the Problem of Sacrifice in British Romanticism. 2, 2

---------. Writing in the Dust: Irony and Lynch-Law in the Gospel of John. 3, 1

---------. The Nowhere Man and Mother Nature's Son: Collaboration and Resentment in the Lyrical Ballads and the Beatles. 4, 2

---------. "What matters is the system!" The Beatles, the "Passover Plot," and Conspiratorial Narrativity. 8, 2

---------. Wordsworthian Songcatching in America. 11, 2

Siebers, Tobin. Philosophy and Its Other--Violence: A Survey of Philosophical Repression From Plato to Girard. 1, 2

---------. Pushkin and Romantic Self-Criticism. 9, 2

Sims, Clare. Christian Sin and Mimetic Contagion: Repentence in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa. 10, 2

Sparagmos! Group (Pablo Bandera, Andrew Bartlett, Christopher Morrissey and Richard van Oort).  Sparagmos! A Dialogue on Girard and Gans. 11, 1

Spisak, Jeffrey. Fear, Pity, and the Master: Rousseau and the Status of Mimetic Structures. 6, 1

Sprenger, ScottBalzac as Anthropologist. 6, 1

---------. In the End was the Word: Balzac's Modernist Absolute. 7, 1

Swing, Raymond. Some Comments on Generative Anthropology. 5, 2

---------. Conceptualizing and other Generative Acts. 9, 1

van Oort, Richard. Epistemology and Generative Theory: Derrida, Gans, and the Anthropological Subtext of Deconstruction. 1, 1 

---------. The Anthropology of Speech-Act Literary Criticism: A Review Article. 1, 2

---------. Performative-Constative Revisited: The Genetics of Austin's Theory of Speech Acts. 2, 2

---------. The Use of Fiction in Literary and Generative Anthropology: An Interview with Wolfgang Iser. 3, 2

---------. The Hero Who Wouldn't Be: Coriolanus and the Scene of Tragic Paradox. 4, 2

Varga, Gabor. Orality and Literacy : The Development of Philosophy into Logical Thought. 5, 2

---------. The Emergence of Logical Thought: How to Interpret Contradiction and Consistency in Early Greek Culture (Part 1. Homer). 7, 1

Webb, Eugene. René Girard and the Symbolism of Religious Sacrifice. 11, 1

Williams, James. René Girard Without the Cross? Religion and the Mimetic Theory. 2, 1

Zurawski, Nils.  Girard among the Paramilitaries of Ulster: Identity, History, and Violence. 8, 1


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