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The representation of another person's words in a speech
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mimesis
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Mimesis (; ( mīmēsis ), from μιμεῖσθαι ( mīmeisthai ), "to imitate," from μῖμος ( mimos ), "imitator, actor") is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation , representation , mimicry , imitatio , receptivity, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, in rhetoric, from Greek mimesis "imitation, representation, representation by art," from mimeisthai "to imitate" (see mimeograph ).
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n. the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease the representation of another person's words in a speech
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Mimesis and diegesis need each other, and often work together so that the join between them can be difficult to discern exactly, but it is easy to see how fundamental they are as the building blocks of narrative.
A loss of depth, that is reinscribed in the surface mimesis of Image Fiction.
On the FM band, WYYY was apparently doing its weather-report via mimesis, broadcasting raw static while the student staff doubtless did bongs in celebration of the storm and then went up sliding around the Union's cerebral rooftop.
But then, he was Render, the Shaper -- one of the two hundred or so special analysts whose own psychic makeup permitted them to enter into neurotic patterns without carrying away more than an esthetic gratification from the mimesis of aberrance -- a Sane Hatter.
They are living out, in a comic mimesis, the fate of Arthur and Guenevere, but to be ruled by a comic fate is not to feel oneself as a figure of comedy.