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Representation of the real world in literature and art
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mimesis
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art. 2 (context biology English) mimicry. 3 (context medicine English) The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present. 4 (context rhetoric English) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mimesis is a philosophical concept. Mimesis may also refer to: Linguistic mimesis , a concept in phonaesthetics Mimesis (biology) , a form of mimicry in which the mimic takes on the properties of a specific object or organism, but one to which the dupe ...
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 ).
Usage examples of mimesis.
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.