Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Guillaume de Machaut and the Jews
Chapter 2. Stereotypes of Persecution
Chapter 3. What is a Myth?
Chapter 4. Violence and Magic
Chapter 5. Teotihuacan
Chapter 6. Ases, Curets, and Titans
Chapter 7. The Crime of the Gods
Chapter 8. The Science of Myths
Chapter 9. The Key Words of the Gospel Passion
Chapter 10. That Only One Man Should Die
Chapter 11. The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Chapter 12. Peter's Denial
Chapter 13. The Demons of Gerasa
Chapter 14. Satan Divided Against Himself
Chapter 15. History and the Paraclete
Index

About the Author

Rene Girard is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. Two of his books, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, which was also translated by Yvonne Freccero, and Violence and the Sacred, are available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Reviews

[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal. -- John Yoder Religion and Literature [Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal. -- John Yoder Religion and Literature

[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal. -- John Yoder Religion and Literature [Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal. -- John Yoder Religion and Literature