Literary Aesthetics and Knowledge in Girard's Mimetic Theory

RENÉ Girard’s mimetic theory has significantly influenced the fields of comparative literature and cultural studies, as well as sociological anthropology and philosophy. Nevertheless, I would argue that a somewhat different line of interpretation, an interdisciplinary one, has not been sufficiently investigated. This involves an interpretation which focuses on the vicissitudes of the mimetic and 'victimage' circle not (or not only) in sociological terms, but by analysing their articulation on the level of knowledge.