Crossword clues for mimesis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mimesis \Mi*me"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? imitation.] (Rhet. & Biol.) Imitation; mimicry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, in rhetoric, from Greek mimesis "imitation, representation, representation by art," from mimeisthai "to imitate" (see mimeograph).
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) The rhetorical pedagogy of imitation. 5 (context rhetoric English) The imitation of another's gestures, pronunciation, or utterance.
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
Wikipedia
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, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.
In ancient Greece, mimesis was an idea that governed the creation of works of art, in particular, with correspondence to the physical world understood as a model for beauty, truth, and the good. Plato contrasted mimesis, or imitation, with diegesis, or narrative. After Plato, the meaning of mimesis eventually shifted toward a specifically literary function in ancient Greek society, and its use has changed and been reinterpreted many times since then.
One of the best-known modern studies of mimesis, understood as a form of realism in literature, is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, which opens with a famous comparison between the way the world is represented in Homer's Odyssey and the way it appears in the Bible. From these two seminal Western texts, Auerbach builds the foundation for a unified theory of representation that spans the entire history of Western literature, including the Modernist novels being written at the time Auerbach began his study. In art history, "mimesis", "realism" and "naturalism" are used, often interchangeably, as terms for the accurate, even "illusionistic", representation of the visual appearance of things.
The Frankfurt school critical theorist T. W. Adorno made use of mimesis as a central philosophical term, interpreting it as a way in which works of art embodied a form of reason that was non-repressive and non-violent.
During the nineteenth century, the racial politics of imitation towards African Americans influenced the term mimesis and its evolution.
Mimesis has been theorised by thinkers as diverse as Plato, Aristotle, Philip Sidney, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Paul Ross, Theodor Adorno, Erich Auerbach, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, René Girard, Nikolas Kompridis, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Michael Taussig, Merlin Donald, and Homi Bhabha.
In mathematics, mimesis is the quality of a numerical method which imitates some properties of the continuum problem. The goal of numerical analysis is to approximate the continuum, so instead of solving a partial differential equation one aims to solve a discrete version of the continuum problem. Properties of the continuum problem commonly imitated by numerical methods are conservation laws, solution symmetries, and fundamental identities and theorems of vector and tensor calculus like the divergence theorem. Both finite difference or finite element method can be mimetic; it depends on the properties that the method has.
For example, a mixed finite element method applied to Darcy flows strictly conserves the mass of the flowing fluid.
The term geometric integration denotes the same philosophy.
Mimesis is a quarterly literary magazine based in Norwich that deals predominantly with poetry. The magazine was started in 2007. Issues appear in January, April, July and November. The journal stands out for the number of pages filled purely by poems. An interview with a well-known poet is also featured in each issue. A small number of greyscale artworks appear alongside the writing.
Mimesis, released on April 23, 2008 on Spinefarm, is the second album by the Finnish alternative rock band End of You. You Deserve More is the only single. This album includes Goldeneye's cover by Tina Turner, from the soundtrack of GoldenEye.
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 is indifferent
- Mimesis (End of You album), a 2008 alternative rock album
- Mimesis (magazine), a quarterly literary magazine
- Mimesis (mathematics), the quality of a numerical method which imitates some properties of the continuum problem
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a book of literary criticism by Erich Auerbach
- Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead, also known as Mimesis, a 2011 horror film directed by Douglas Schulze
Mimetic may refer to the Mimetic Muscles see Facial muscles.
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.