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By: Trevor Cribben Merrill

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Nothing in his rural New England upbringing could have prepared Colin Phelps for freshman year at an Ivy League college: the House Master crashes hall parties; public nudity is practically an intramural sport; and French intellectuals spouting arcane theories cast a spell over the undergraduates. Colin plunges into the hookup culture, competing with his brash, rule-breaking roommate. But as he soon discovers, the pursuit of transgression is fraught with unexpected pitfalls, and his suave pose must be stripped away if he is to find genuine freedom.

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1951319109

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9781951319106

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

By: Trevor Cribben Merrill

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The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

By: Trevor Cribben Merrill

Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of “period pieces” that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist René Girard's notion of “triangular desire,” he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction. Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found “the One” at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire. At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441195467

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9781441195463

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By: Trevor Cribben Merrill

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441120351

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9781441120359

The Limitations of Language

By: Terence Moore,Chris Carling,Anna Larsson,Trevor Cribben Merrill

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The Limitations of Language

By: Terence Moore,Chris Carling,Anna Larsson,Trevor Cribben Merrill

This book explores the relation between language and our senses and emotions, taking readers into domains as diverse as wine-tasting, marriage guidance counselling, medical training and face recognition. The authors suggest that language is capable of both confusing and clarifying.

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1349194468

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Minor Indignities

Minor Indignities

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard

The Limitations of Language

The Limitations of Language

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