Contagion 30

Editor's Introduction

The View from P?le Nord: Sartre, Beauvoir, and Girard on Mimesis, Embodiment, and Desire
Martha J. Reineke

Rebellion and the Sacred: Sacrifice in Camus's Rebel
Brian Harding

"Even now, now, very now": Mimesis's and Imitation's Temporalities
JoAo Cezar de Castro Rocha

Sacrificial "As-If" and Avuncular Hilarity: Living by MEconnaissance
Wiel Eggen

The Mimetic Sacred: Girard and Bataille Transcending Desire
Jeffrey D. McNeil

Sophie, Greta, Cuiyuan, and Feminist Desire: Stories by Ding Ling, Alice Munro, and Eileen Chang
Yuhui Bao and Ian Dennis

Men Becoming Gods in "Style": Gioia and Girard on Divinized Desire
Joshua Hren

Escalation to Academic Extremes? Revisiting Academic Rivalry in the MOEhler/Baur Debate
Grant Kaplan

The Myrmidon vs. the Abbess: How Contrasting Mechanisms to Resolve Mimetic Contagion in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Comedy of Errors Stand as a Warning Against the Rejection of Christianity in Favor of Resurgent Homeric Ethos
Brian P. Quaranta

SEduire, C'est Tout: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the Struggle of Influence
Paul Sharma

Imitation, Violence, and Exchange: Girard and Mauss
Per BjOrnar Grande