[KB] René Girard and Burke?

[David Blakesley]

Paul:

I was just discussing the *Chronicle* article with some students the other
day. Paul Lynch has an excellent article on Burke and Girard here:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/contagion.24.1.0139

Rescuing Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke, René Girard, and Forms of Conversion
Paul Lynch
*Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture*, Vol. 24, No. 1
(Spring 2017), pp. 139-158 (20 pages)

Paul makes the astute point that "where Girard finds the roots of sacrifice
in mimetic desire, Burke finds them in language" (143).

The Chronicle article is here:
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/the-review/2023-10-09.

Cheers,
Dave

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 12:26 AM Paul Turpin <turpin.p at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Review of The Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 9) prominently
> mentions Girard's work on scapegoating. Any connections to Burke's work?
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