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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Rene Girard"”.
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The Ritualization of Violence in <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>
… I will use <em>Violence and the Sacred</em> by Rene Girard that examines the way primitive cultures are able to maintain order through particular religious beliefs and collective violence against a scapegoat. My critical reading of the text will look closely at how Philip uses the pseudo-sacred …
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Negotiating non-violent subjectivity in a desocialised world: narrative explorations of women's struggles against self-sacrifice.
… our own experience and for each other and to a renewed sense of human agency and responsiveness. In the exegetical essay, “Negotiating Non-Violent Subjectivity: Narrative Explorations of Women’s Struggles against Self-Sacrifice”, I trace the ways in which the major themes of my novel emerged …
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The Rhetoric of Violence
This thesis seeks to understand how we read and understand the use of depictions of violence by examining its rhetorical presentation. Although the media gives us a mixed understanding of the way that experiencing violence secondarily (that is, through all types of media) affects us, scholarship in …