Mimesis, the notion that art imitates reality, has long been recognized as one of the central ideas of Western aesthetics and has been most frequently associated with Aristotle. Less well documented is the great importance of mimetic theories of literature, theater, and the visual arts during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. In this book, the most comprehensive overview of the theory of mimesis since Auerbach's monumental study, Gunter Gebauer and Christoph Wulf provide a thorough introduction to the complex and shifting meanings of the term. Beginning with the Platonic doctrine of imitation, they chart the concept's appropriation and significance in the aesthetic theories of Aristotle, Molière, Shakespeare, Racine, Diderot, Lessing, and Rousseau. They examine the status of mimesis in the nineteenth-century novel and its reworking by such modern thinkers as Benjamin, Adorno, and Derrida. Widening the traditional understanding of mimesis to encompass the body and cultural practices of everyday life, their work suggests the continuing value of mimetic theory and will prove essential reading for scholars and students of literature, theater, and the visual arts.
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"A fundamental historical account of the much-cited but little-studied concept of mimesis, and an essential starting point for all future discussions of this crucial critical concept."--Hayden White
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antiromantic novels, mimesis designates, mimetic mediation, social mimesis, nonsensuous correspondences, literary mimesis, mimetic processes, codification system, nonsensuous similarity, mimetic reference, artistic mimesis, similitude theory, breakthrough situations, mimetic relation, mimetic faculty, mimetic abilities, negative anthropology, theatrical mimesis, poetic mimesis, mimetic world, mimetic movement, bourgeois theater, des articulations, mimetic character, mimetic action Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Princess of Cleves, Middle Ages, Madame de Bargeton, Madame de Lafayette, Italian Renaissance, Madame de Chasteller, Madame de Renal, Berliner Kindheit, Old Testament, Sentimental Education, Henri Beyle, Holy Scripture, Madame Arnoux, Lucien Leuwen, New Testament New!
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- Mimesis: From Mirror to Method, Augustine to Descartes by John D. Lyons on 9 pages
- The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette on 6 pages
- The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette on 6 pages
- The Princess of Cleves by Madame De La Fayette on 6 pages
- A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert on 5 pages
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