Series Editor's Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One: From Triangular Desire to Interdividual Psychology; Chapter Two: Sacrificial Violence and Scapegoat; Chapter Three: Myth; Chapter Four: The Bible: Antidote to Violence; Chapter Five: Girard's Critics and the Girardians; Interview; A Venda Myth Analyzed by Rene Girard; Bibliography
Richard Golsan is Professor of French at Texas A & M University. He is editor of The Papon Affair (Routledge 2000).
"For the student of myth the book marks a promising prospect for
the future direction of myth studies; for the Girardian, it signals
the move from marginal to mainstream of a theory that not only
rocks the closed hierarchy of academic disciplines but may open the
way to an eventual, even wider, interinstitutional dialogue." --
The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion
"...an excellent and much needed introduction not only to Girard's
concept of myth but to Girard's thought in general." -- Cesareo
Bandera, Zygon
"A clear, well-balanced treatment of Girard's writings and thought.
[Contains] the most complete bibliography pertaining to Girard's
research that has yet appeared in print." -- James G. Williams,
Religion
"Golsan makes the foundations of Girardian theory as accessible as
possible." -- Gary M. Ciuba, Kent State University Christianity and
Literature
"Golsan's lucid account makes it clear that his subject's main
contribution to myth has been the insight that myth is a narrative
that suppresses the violence from which it originates
It is, indeed, an ambitious work that seeks to encompass various
modern approaches to both myth and literature, most traditional
types of myth, and most of the important developments in
"mythification" in twentieth=century literature." -- Religious
Studies Review
"The crowning virtue of Richard J. Golsan's book Rene Girard and
Myth is its consistent clarity; Golsan proceeds with remarkable
economy through a complex body of thought." -- The Journal of
Religion
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