Re: How Girard sees his own literary project. -- Mimetic Theory and Literary Study

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Date Posted: 07:15:45 01/21/08 Mon
Author: Kiernan
Subject: Re: How Girard sees his own literary project.
In reply to: j.jackson 's message, "How Girard sees his own literary project." on 13:02:46 01/16/08 Wed

I think I need some clarification on Girard's use of terms here. In "'Triangular' Desire," he says that "the triangle is no gestalt," thus making it clear that he doesn't view his model as "mechanical" as he says further down the page (4). He chooses instead the word "system," which seems to indicate, to him, that he is organizing something based on its own logic, not by imposing a logic upon it. But later, in speaking of mimetic desire, he says that Romantic literature does not reveal "its actual mechanism (17)." I suppose this question is just one of terminology, but, to Girard, is a "mechanism" not "mechanical," at least in his original sense? And am I right in his definition of system?

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