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.

Mimesis is also employed by some predators ( or parasites ) to lure their prey.

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 ( ( 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.

Developed initially for the Mimesis 20 D / A converter, the Alize technology uses a totally different circuit topology than other converters.

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 ).

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

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

However, there is always the possibility that chance will make demands the dancers find impossible to execute.

And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.

On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

A further regulation is that commands always go down, unaccompanied by statements, and statements always go up, unaccompanied by commands.

Its massive contours are rooted in the simple need of man, since he is always incomplete, to complete himself.

The problem is to remove the accretions and thereby uncover the order that was always there.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

The United States is always ready to participate with the Soviet Union in serious discussion of these or any other subjects that may lead to peace with justice.

Social process is always anchored in past predisposition ; ;

Plato's attitude toward poetry has always been something of an enigma, because he is so completely sensitive to its charm.

This is not to assume that his work was without merit, but the validity of his assumptions concerning the meaning of history must always be considered against this background of an unprofessional approach.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

But there is, nevertheless, always a subtle difference in the way in which supposedly similar opinions are held.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.

But one need not always be sure that the action is either wise or conclusive.

And it is also a fact of life that there will always ( be youngish half-educated people around, who will be dazzled by the glitter of what looks like a literary movement.

When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.

His advisers in the Politburo ( White House ) are engaged in a great struggle of opinions, so he is not always consistent.

Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities.

For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.