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Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective - Mallarme, Flaubert, and Eminescu (Paperback)
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Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective - Mallarme, Flaubert, and Eminescu (Paperback)
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Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term going back to
Aristotle. It carries a wide range of meanings, including
imitation, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, and the
presentation of self. In modern literary criticism, mimesis has
received renewed attention in the last two or three decades and
been subject to wide-ranging interpretations. Nicolae Babuts looks
at the concept of mimesis from a cognitive perspective. He
identifies two main strands: the mimetic relation of art and poetry
to the world, defined in terms of reference to an external reality,
and the importance of memory in the making of plots or
storytelling. Babuts suggests that there is a material identity we
cannot know beyond the limits of our senses and intellect and a
symbolic or coded identity that is processed by memory. All
writers, including Mallarme in his esoteric poetry, Flaubert in his
realist narratives, and Mihai Eminescu, the Romanian poet, in his
romantic poems, rely on mimetic strategies to link the two
identities: the images in memory to the outside reality. All order
their narratives in accordance with the dynamics of memory. Babuts
describes this phenomenon with great insight, showing how new
traditions are formed.
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