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Published · transcript-backedCynthia L. Haven: belief
24 Aug 2022 Conversations with Tyler Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
“I think that comedies give you a chance to play with it, and I think that that’s a large part of their delight.”
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- Cynthia L. Haven
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- 24 Aug 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Why is there more mimetic desire in the comedies? Ooh, I think it allowed Shakespeare to play around a lot more. There’s a lot of mimetic influences in the other plays as well. Julius Caesar is an excellent one for mimetic desire that leads to basically a lynching. I think that comedies give you a chance to play with it, and I think that that’s a large part of their delight. What do you think was Girard’s greatest flaw as a thinker?…
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