The peer-reviewed journal of Generative Anthropology, founded by Eric Gans at UCLA. Published 1995–2024 (Vols 1–30), featuring essays by Van Oort, Bartlett, Dennis, Ludwigs, McKenna, Goldman, Eshelman, Gans, Girard, and others.
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In this first issue of Anthropoetics ‘ tenth year we are honored to offer an English translation of René Girard ‘s analysis of Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ , which first appeared in Le Figaro...
Department of French and Italian Stanford University Stanford CA 94305 This review-article was first published in Le Figaro Magazine in March 2004, under the title, “A propos du film de Mel Gibson,...
English Department Kwantlen University College Surrey, British Columbia Canada V3W 2M8 Andrew.Bartlett@kwantlen.ca I. Introduction: Ethical Anxiety, Esthetic Dilemma 1 For moviemakers, moviegoers and...
dactylic@earthlink.net Plato knows of those intelligible and invisible gods which are immanent in and coexist with the creator himself and were begotten and proceeded from him. Naturally, therefore,...
Department of English and Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine Irvine CA 92697 mludwigs@uci.edu The Search for Explanation In this essay I will examine the theory and praxis of...
Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 louzgane@ualberta.ca [I]n life, after all, we are most wholly controlled by desire. The things that appeal to desire are...
This issue rounds out Anthropoetics ‘ tenth year of publication. It introduces a new contributor, Clare Sims , who uses a Girardian analysis to unravel the complex moral issues of Richardson’s...
97 Hampden Road London N8 0HU UK csims7164@yahoo.co.uk In her posthumous letter to Lovelace, Clarissa writes: “I should mistrust my own penitence were I capable of wishing to recompense evil for...
Department of English Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518 Adam.Katz@quinnipiac.edu Discipline and Disciples in Originary Thinking It makes sense to think of the emergence of originary thinking as...
Department of English Westminster College Salt Lake City, Utah 84105 www.westminstercollege.edu pgoldman@westminstercollege.edu Any consideration of consumer society has to begin with recognizing its...
Siedlung am Dobl 42b 83512 Wasserburg Germany REshelman@t-online.de We live in an age that is highly skeptical about the possibility of epochal change. Although there is a widely held feeling that...