Title
Tauromachia as Counter-Sacrificial Ritual: Insights from Mimetic Theory
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Harding rejects the pervasive view of the bull as sacrificial victim in the bullfight. Draws on the theories of René Girard and three types of bullfighting distinguished in Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon (e.g. spontaneous, amateur, professional) to identify the matador as (potential) victim in his counter-sacrificial reading of the corrida.
Published in
Contagion
Volume
25
Date
2018
Pages
243-263
COinS
Citation
Harding, Brian. “Tauromachia as Counter-Sacrificial Ritual: Insights from Mimetic Theory.” Contagion 25 (2018): 243-63.