/lit/ - Literature

>>9625097
>ask a girardfag about girard
>fuck yeah

Start here, go check it out. Lots of good FAQs and downloads and so on.
https://www.ravenfoundation.org
https://www.ravenfoundation.org/faqs/

Palaver's book - pictured here - is a good introduction. Can do worse than this.

For literary stuff, Desire Deceit & the Novel is where he founds his theory of mimetic desire, and then there's more of that in his book on Shakespeare. I can't tell you much about that, since I just ordered it today. But DDN is excellent, especially if you are into capital-G capital-B Great Books.

Violence and The Sacred, The Scapegoat, and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World are his more cultural and anthropological studies. If you're interested in scapegoat theory and so on, that's there.

Battling to the End is also good but that's for after you've read some of the other stuff. The Girard Reader has lots of other stuff.

He's got a lot of shit to talk about. I got into him after reading a lot of analysis - basically, desire and mimetics. So the core stuff is his theory of triangular desire. He's basically a god-tier cultural critic who is neither a Marxist, a Freudian, or a phenomenologist. Some people don't like him because he's got a Theory of Everything, but I happen to subscribe to that theory of everything.

In the interests of balance, you can go back and read Landy's criticism later - although it actually might work as an introduction to the man's thought also.

http://arcade.stanford.edu/rofl/deceit-desire-and-literature-professor-why-girardians-exist