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Among the Outsiders.

Studies in Scapegoat Figure Typologies

by Fretschel-Hojarski Andrzej (Author)
Monographs 228 Pages
Series: Cross-Roads, Volume 37

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Summary

Following in the footsteps of Frazer, Freud, and Burke, René Girard proposes a novel hermeneutics of scapegoating which not only gives voice to the victims in the face of unjust persecution, but likewise unmasks the generative function that belies its frequently lethal dénouement depicted in texts of persecution.

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Pages
228
ISBN (PDF)
9783631922897
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631928189
DOI
10.3726/b22450
Language
English
Publication date
2025 (June)
Keywords
scapegoating scapegoat mechanism violence and literature mimetic theory mimetic rivalry sociology of literature literary criticism
Published
Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2025. 228 pp., 8 fig.
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Biographical notes

Fretschel-Hojarski Andrzej (Author)

Andrzej Fretschel-Hojarski completed his studies at Loyola University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Jagiellonian University. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies in Cracow.

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