• Mimesis (/mɪˈmiːsɪs, maɪ-/; Ancient Greek: μίμησις, mīmēsis) is a term used in literary criticism and philosophy that carries a wide range of meanings...
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  • Mimesis criticism is a method of interpreting texts in relation to their literary or cultural models. Mimesis, or imitation (imitatio), was a widely used...
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  • The phrase may be considered synonymous with anti-mimesis, the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis: art imitating real life. The idea's most notable...
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  • Look up mimesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mimesis is a philosophical concept. Mimesis may also refer to: Linguistic mimesis, a concept in phonaesthetics...
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    In biology, mimesis (from ancient Greek μίμησις mímēsis, "imitation") is a form of crypsis where living creatures mimic the form, colour and posture of...
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  • Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (German: Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur) is a book of...
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  • In mathematics, mimesis is the quality of a numerical method which imitates some properties of the continuum problem. The goal of numerical analysis is...
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  • "Dichomeris mimesis​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 21, 2018. Savela, Markku. "Dichomeris mimesis Hodges, 1986"...
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  • alongside the writing. "MIMESIS - website launch of new literary journal". Deviant Art. 18 March 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2015. Mimesis Poetry web site v t...
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  • Anniversary of Mimesis," included in Fifty Year Anniversary edition of Mimesis. Princeton University Press, 2003. Bibliography Bakker, Egbert. "Mimesis as Performance:...
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  • Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead (also Mimesis) is a 2011 American horror film directed by Douglas Schulze, written by Joshua Wagner and Schulze, and...
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    Ideophone (redirect from Linguistic mimesis)
    An ideophone is any word in a certain word class evoking ideas in sound imitation (onomatopoeia) to express an action, manner, or property. The class of...
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  • derives from the philosophical concept mimesis, which carries a wide range of meanings. In mimetic theory, mimesis refers to human desire, which Girard...
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  • Mimesis is the second album by the Finnish alternative rock band End of You, released on 23 April 2008 on Spinefarm. "You Deserve More" is the only single...
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    original on 17 May 2012. St. Pierre, Paul Matthew (1 April 2009). Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895–1960: On the Halls on the Screen. New Jersey: Fairleigh...
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  • Angeles. Secondly, mimesis describes an imitation or representation of that separated sound into another context. For example, mimesis has occurred if one...
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    a mimesis, or imitation of life. Comedy is the third form of literature, being the most divorced from a true mimesis. Tragedy is the truest mimesis, followed...
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  • The imitation of life in art is called mimesis. Imitation of Life may also refer to: Imitation of Life (novel), a 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst Imitation...
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    fundamentally acts of mimesis ("imitation"), each varying in imitation by medium, object, and manner. He applies the term mimesis both as a property of...
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    discarded Aristotle's mimesis. In Aristotle's Poetics, lyric poetry, epic poetry, drama, dancing, painting are all described as forms of mimesis. Ruthven (1979)...
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  • meaning primarily "limb") Mimesis or "imitation", "representation," or "expression," given that, e.g., music is a form of mimesis, and often there is no...
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  • διήγησις "narration") and mimesis (Greek μίμησις "imitation") have been contrasted since Aristotle. For Aristotle, mimesis shows rather than tells, by...
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  • all fundamentally acts of mimesis, each varying in imitation by medium, object, and manner. Aristotle applies the term mimesis both as a property of a work...
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  • to partake of the form of beauty. Methexis is sometimes contrasted with mimesis. The latter "connotes emphasis on the solo performer (the hero) separate...
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    sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent (mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, drama is a mode distinct from novels...
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  • explicates three core mechanisms that govern widespread social interactions: mimesis, the process by which individuals copy one another in escalation, leading...
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    Camouflage (section Mimesis)
    In mimesis (also called masquerade), the camouflaged object looks like something else which is of no special interest to the observer. Mimesis is common...
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    appreciating formal elements for their own sake, and as mimesis or representation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. Leo Tolstoy...
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    between Conrad and Achebe are profound and that a form of "postcolonial mimesis" ties the two authors via productive mirroring inversions. Orson Welles...
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    that at this time there was a debate about the capabilities and limits of mimesis (imitation). He argues with Kleitos – an unknown sculptor whom some consider...
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