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Mimesis - Culture-Art-Society (Paperback)
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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, Moliere, 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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