The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

Mimesis here is not to be confused with literalism or realism in the conventional sense.

Mimesis is common in prey animals, for example when a Peppered Moth caterpillar mimics a twig, or a grasshopper mimics a dry leaf.

Imitation is found especially in monkeys and apes but ... Mimesis is fundamentally different from imitation and mimicry in that it involves the invention of intentional representations.

[...] Mimesis is not absolutely tied to external communication.

Mimesis is always the desire to possess, in renouncing it we offer ourselves as a sacrificial gift to the other.

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.

One of the best-known modern studies of mimesis, understood as a form of realism in the arts, is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature.

Mimesis shows, rather than tells, by means of directly represented action that is enacted.

To Taussig, this reductionism is suspect, and he argues thus from both sides in his Mimesis and Alterity to see values in the anthropologists ' perspective, at the same time as defending the independence of a lived culture from anthropological reductionism.

Mimesis shows rather than tells, by means of action that is enacted.

One monument to the approach of this period is Erich Auerbach's book Mimesis, a survey of techniques of realism in texts whose origins span several continents and three thousand years.

Sandberg is also an accomplished and inventive electronic artist, whose renderings have been adapted to a number of covers for books by fellow futurist Damien Broderick: The Dreaming, Earth is But a Star, The Judas Mandala, Skiffy and Mimesis, Uncle Bones, Warriors of the Tao, and xyzt.

* Mimesis also refers to imitation, especially relating to the arts.

* Functionalism ( philosophy of mind ) ( see also Stanford website ) Mimesis

Hiller also published an essay on the Mimesis of Nature in Music ( Abhandlung über die Nachahmung der Natur in der Musik ) in 1754.

Mimesis has been theorised by thinkers as diverse as Plato, Aristotle, Philip Sidney, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Erich Auerbach, Luce Irigaray, René Girard, Nikolas Kompridis, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Michael Taussig, Merlin Donald, and Homi Bhabha.

* " Mimesis ", an article by Władysław Tatarkiewicz for the Dictionary of History of Ideas

* Res Ipsa Loquitur: History and Mimesis ( Reprint by World Scientific Publishing 2012 )

by A. Panaino and R. Zipoli, Milan: Mimesis, pp. 321-338 / LI-LIV.

Mimesis means being seen, but resembling something else, whereas crypsis means being hidden.

* Di Bernardo, M., I sentieri evolutivi della complessità biologica nell ' opera di S. A. Kauffman, Mimesis, Milano 2011.

Reprint: Milano, Mimesis, 1997.

Un saggio su Murray Bookchin, Mimesis, Milano 2011 ISBN 978-88-575-0501-5.

In Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, the literary critic Erich Auerbach considers the Hebrew narrative of the Binding of Isaac, along with Homer's description of Odysseus's scar, as the two paradigmatic models for the representation of reality in literature.

The following works can be usefully consulted in this regard: L. Golden, " Aristotle on Tragic and Comic Mimesis ," Atlanta, 1992, S. Halliwell, " Aristotle's Poetics ," London, 1986, D. Keesey, " On Some Recent Interpretations of Catharsis ," The Classical World ", ( 1979 ) 72. 4, 193-205.

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* Hooley, D. M. The Knotted Thong: Structures of Mimesis in Persius ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997 ).

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.