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Mimesis (/ m ɪ ˈ m iː s ɪ s, m aɪ-/; [1] Ancient Greek: μίμησις, mīmēsis) is a term used in literary criticism and philosophy that carries a wide range of meanings, including imitatio, imitation, nonsensuous [clarification needed] similarity, receptivity, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, the act of resembling, and the presentation of the self.
Mimesis gives an account of the way in which everyday life in its seriousness has been represented by many Western writers, from ancient Greek and Roman writers such as Petronius and Tacitus, early Christian writers such as Augustine, Medieval writers such as Chretien de Troyes, Dante, and Boccaccio, Renaissance writers such as Montaigne, Rabelais, Shakespeare and Cervantes, seventeenth ...
Mimesis criticism is a method of interpreting texts in relation to their literary or cultural models. Mimesis, or imitation ( imitatio ), was a widely used rhetorical tool in antiquity up until the 18th century's romantic emphasis on originality.
Erich Auerbach (9 November 1892 – 13 October 1957) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature.His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times frequently cited as a classic in the study of realism in literature. [1]
The name of the theory derives from the philosophical concept mimesis, which carries a wide range of meanings. In mimetic theory, mimesis refers to human desire, which Girard thought was not linear but the product of a mimetic process in which people imitate models who endow objects with value. [1]
The genres all share the function of mimesis, or imitation of life, but differ in three ways that Aristotle describes: There are differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter, and melody. There is a difference of goodness in the characters. A difference exists in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out.
Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005. Ed. by Robert Doran. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-5580-1. This book brings together twenty essays on literature and literary theory. 2008. La conversion de l'art. Paris: Carnets Nord.
Dionysius' three volume work On mimesis (On imitation), which was the most influential for Latin authors, is lost. [1] Most of it contained advice on how to identify the most suitable writers to imitate and the best way to imitate them. [1] [2] For Dionysian imitatio, the object of imitation was not a single author but the qualities of many. [2]