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" Geoffrey Hill, René Girard, and the Logic of Sacrifice "
William A. Johnsen
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AL
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1081589
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LA125218
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10.1163/15685292-12341240
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English
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William A. Johnsen
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Geoffrey Hill, René Girard, and the Logic of Sacrifice [Article]\ William A. Johnsen
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Leiden: Brill
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Religion and the Arts
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2012
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16/5
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573–580
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According to René Girard, the logic of sacrifice is scapegoating, the logic of self-sacrifice is self-transcendency true or deviated. Ibsen completed his unfinished epic poem “Brand” by rewriting it as a dramatic poem; dramatization clarified the mutually complicit nature of Brand’s useless self-sacrifice to and by his community. Ibsen rewrote Brand with great speed and facility and, ten years later, perhaps with the lesson of Brand’s unnecessary self-sacrifice in mind, achieved that regularity of intense focus that produced a play every two years. Geoffrey Hill’s stage version completes the process of dramatizing Brand. By his own accounting in a 1979 interview Hill wrote his Brand with great speed and facility; ten years later, he began the current period of unrivalled periodic productivity. According to René Girard, the logic of sacrifice is scapegoating, the logic of self-sacrifice is self-transcendency true or deviated. Ibsen completed his unfinished epic poem “Brand” by rewriting it as a dramatic poem; dramatization clarified the mutually complicit nature of Brand’s useless self-sacrifice to and by his community. Ibsen rewrote Brand with great speed and facility and, ten years later, perhaps with the lesson of Brand’s unnecessary self-sacrifice in mind, achieved that regularity of intense focus that produced a play every two years. Geoffrey Hill’s stage version completes the process of dramatizing Brand. By his own accounting in a 1979 interview Hill wrote his Brand with great speed and facility; ten years later, he began the current period of unrivalled periodic productivity.
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deviated transcendency
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Geoffrey Hill
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Henrik Ibsen
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René Girard
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sacrifice
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self-sacrifice
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10.1163/15685292-12341240
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