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"Violence and the Sacred": sacrifice, scapegoating and social conflict in Alfonso Reyes Ifigenia cruel
(Oxford University Press, 2016-10-24)
This article presents a reading of Alfonso Reyes Ifigenia cruel informed by René Girard s theories of mimetic violence and the scapegoating effect . It seeks to foster interest in the complex relationship between the ...
The absence of tragedy in Ifigenia (1950) by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
(Liverpool University Press, 2021-02-01)
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester s novella, Ifigenia (1950) has been read consistently as a critique of the consolidating Francoist state of the 1940s and an early example of his demythologising technique. This article seeks ...