%0 Book
%A Fretschel-Hojarski Andrzej
%D 2025
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2191-6179
%T Among the Outsiders
%B Studies in Scapegoat Figure Typologies
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1513453
%X 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.
%K scapegoating, scapegoat mechanism, violence and literature, mimetic theory, mimetic rivalry, sociology of literature, literary criticism
%G English