1st Edition
Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective Mallarme, Flaubert, and Eminescu
By Nicolae Babuts
Copyright 2011
251 Pages
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Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1: An Aristotelian Legacy; 2: Language and Perception; 3: The Splitting of the Referent and the Mnemonic Projection; 4: Memory: Faithful or Unfaithful?; 5: Fictional Worlds and the Matter of Belief; 6: Events in Time and the Rise of Narrative; 7: The Prestige of Rumors; 8: Mallarmé and the Mystery of Legends; 9: Flaubert’s “Hérodias” and the Mimetic Impulse; 10: Eminescu and the Romantic Transfiguration; 11: Concluding Remarks
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Nicolae Babuts
