Mimesis Essays

  • Realism In Aristotle's Poetics

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    Realism reacts against the aim of pure mimesis in art, since for Aristotle mimesis is the only thing poetry does. Moreover, realism tries to estrange the audience from the plot of the work to make it reflect about her position as audience. That’s not a goal for Aristotle, he wants the spectators to have a total

  • Matthew Arnold versus Aristotle's Poetics

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    The value of imitation: a vision of Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle wrote his Poetics thousands of years before Matthew Arnold's birth. His reasons for composing it were different from Arnold's reasons for using it as an element of his own poetic criticism. We can safely say that Arnold was inclined to use the Poetics as an inspiration for his own poetry, and as a cultural weapon in the fight for artistic and social renewal. Aristotle, by contrast, was more concerned with discovering general truths

  • Essay On Mimesis On Art

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    Mimesis is arguably the oldest and most widely held view on the nature of art. The mimicry of nature is involved in art making. What is mimesis exactly? Is it imitation, mirroring, perceptual equivalence, counterfeiting, idealization or representation? From Plato’s The Republic to Aristotle’s Poetics, both philosophers disagree greatly about the value of art in the human society but they have different views. Plato focuses in the objective and purpose of art and questions its value. On the other

  • Mimesis, Imitacion - Representacion

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    MÍMESIS Imitación, Representación Originalmente, la literatura surgió como una necesidad de, aparte de entretener, formar y enseñar a los hombres con el objeto de lograr un mundo ideal según como lo consideraban los autores; Para este fin se nutría de algunas formas literarias, como lo son: la tragedia, la epopeya, la poesía, etc. Y éstas, a su vez, conseguían su objetivo apoyándose en la imitación de la realidad, a través de la representación literaria o, lo que es lo mismo, mimesis. Ésta

  • Psychology and Realism in Mimesis

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    “real” reality of Realism and the “psychological” reality of Modernism to redefine a mimetic reality for their readers, by examining the position of Theo D’haen, the novels: Lolita and In a Winters Night, A Traveler and Gunter Bebauer’s stance on Mimesis. Theo D’haen, a professor at the University of Leuven, synthesizes that a postmodernist writer is one who uses a “combination of any number of techniques that were seen as innovative and perhaps even transgressive, especially with regard to all forms

  • Walter Benjamin's Mimesis In Man With A Movie Camera

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    Being mimetic is to be practicing mimesis or imitating the real world through art. This is the purest intent of documentaries as they are created with the purpose of documenting the world as it is believed to be. In the process of showing the world, filmmakers encounter barriers of what they cannot show due to technological limitations. In these moments, recreation and imitation are used to mimic what we normally could not see. Examples of this are best seen in documentaries of the human body, outer

  • Arguments of Plato in The Republic and Aristotle in Poetics

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    What does imitation (mimesis) involve for Plato and Aristotle? Explain its different features. Mimesis, the ‘imitative representation of the real world in art and literature’ , is a form that was particularly evident within the governance of art in Ancient Greece. Although its exact interpretation does vary, it is most commonly used to describe artistic creation as a whole. The value and need for mimesis has been argued by a number of scholars including Sigmund Freud, Philip Sydney and Adam Smith

  • elationship between art and society

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    Relationship Between Art And Society: Mimesis The relationship between art and society: Mimesis as discussed in the works of Aristotle, Plato, Horace and Longinus The relationship between art and society in the works of Plato are based upon his idea of the world of eternal Forms. He believed that there is a world of eternal, absolute and immutable Forms (the world of the Ideal) and thought that this is proven by when man is faced with the appearance of anything in the material world, his mind is

  • How Did Brunelleschi Influence The Development Of The Italian Renaissance?

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    The Italian Renaissance was markedly known for the revival of classicism, humanism and mimesis. All three of these tenets became the main ideals artists wanted to exude through their paintings, sculptures and architecture. While Brunelleschi was not a painter like most famous artists that we commonly talk about when discussing the Italian Renaissance, he was one of the most influential figures in Renaissance architecture. Brunelleschi played an important role in the development of the Italian Renaissance

  • Rene Girard Violence And The Sacred Summary

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    I will now look at a passage focusing on Rene Girard’s ideas from his book Violence and the Sacred. “Once his basic needs are satisfied (indeed, sometimes even before), man is subject to intense desires, though he may not know precisely for what. The reason is that he desires being, something he himself lacks and which some other person seems to possess. The subject thus looks to that other person to inform him of what he should desire in order to acquire that being. If the model, who is apparently

  • Influence of Aristotle’s Poetics on William Wordsworth’s Poetry and William Shakespeare’s Plays

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    important topics that Aristotle addresses and believes to be crucial to the art work is the mimesis, or imitation of life, and that the audience has an emotional response from the work, or a catharsis. Both William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare were believers in Aristotle’s philosophy concerning tragedies and poetry, and employed these two elements within their works. The basic definition for mimesis is the act of creating an image or images in someone’s mind, through an artistic representation

  • The Impossibility of Female Desire in Pygmalion and The Awakening

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    express their desire and that is the act of mimicry or mimesis. Mimesis is not an attempt to represent female desire in patriarchal language; instead, mimesis is in attempt through the use of patriarchal language to reveal that female desire cannot be presented, a way to “make ‘visible,’ by an effect of playful repetition, what was supposed to remain invisible – the cover-up of a possible operation of the feminine in language” (795). Mimesis exposes how patriarchal language disallows or denies female

  • Postdramatic Theatre Analysis

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    narration and alit, leading away from theatrical illusion. This change allows the body and its physicality to gain more freedom as its movements and gesture are not in service of mimesis, and therefore they become “pure forms” that “have to be considered as an absolute construction of formal elements as they do not represent mimesis of reality”. The theatre of “pure forms” is called “concrete theatre” and allows performances to “adhere solely to their low of internal composition”. This feature embodies

  • Romeo And Juliet Greek Tragedy

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    Famous Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle gives a comprehensive philosophical account of the Greek tragedy, specifically emphasizing what components are necessary for a tragedy to be great. The most important part of a tragedy, according to Aristotle, is the action of the play. The qualities and characteristics of the characters are unimportant in comparison to what they do. Aristotle writes, “tragedy is an imitation, not of human beings, but of an action and a way of life and of happiness and unhappiness

  • Supernatural Literature

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    we know it, making the impossible seem plausible with socio, cultural and political ... ... middle of paper ... ...rd dictionary (British & World English). 2014. mimesis: definition of mimesis in Oxford dictionary (British & World English). [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mimesis?q=mimesis. [Accessed 04 June 2014]. Winsbro, BC 1993, Supernatural Forces : Belief, Difference, And Power In Contemporary Works By Ethnic Women, Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts

  • Imitation In The Odyssey

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    common characteristics, and exploring theories on epic, the authors focus mostly on the Classical and European epics, with textual examples narrowed down to works such as Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and Paradise Lost, to name a few. The “Mimesis” entry outlines views on mimesis from its beginning to its modern legacy, with historical focus on Plato, Aristotle, and the Greek views following them. An entry on a literary device, “Dream Vision” defines the subject, employing examples pulled from literature and

  • Narratology in Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    Narratology divides a ‘narrative into story and narration’. (Cohan et al., 1988, p. 53) The three main figures that contribute a considerable amount of research to this theory are Gerard Genette, Aristotle and Vladimir Propp. This essay will focus on how Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights can be fully appreciated and understood when the theory is applied to the text. Firstly, I will focus on the components of narration Genette identifies that enhance a reader’s experience of the text. Secondly

  • Narratology Theory

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    narratives like the plot of story are utilized, the concepts of mimesis and diegesis, focalization, the importance of time, the frame of the story and the language utilized by the characters. He labeled the forms of narrative and expanded upon their purpose, he stated that mimesis or the“parts of a narrative which are presented in a mimetic manner are ‘dramatised’...making use of dialogue which contains direct speech”Barry. Mimesis creates the illusion of a narrative in which the reader can experience

  • Revolution Rebellion Resistance Selbin Summary

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    topics: revolution, rebellion, and resistance. These topics are separated into four categories; four different stories that centers around revolution in the world. Three aspects of the stories that are used to relate and connect revolutions are myth, mimesis, and memory. The three words rebellions, revolution and resistance come from some ancient myths. Those myths involve Greco-Roman revolutionary leaders, some local events that are considered legendary and also recent revolutions and social movements

  • Palestinian Cinema

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    aestheticization as such. Dabashi repeatedly singles out Elia Suleiman for special recognition among Palestinian directors. For him, Suleiman’s films are particularly attuned to the crisis of mimesis in traumatic realism (Dabashi, “Introduction” 21). Suleiman’s affinity to cinematically represent the crisis of mimesis, while still attending to the politically repressed leads to a unique aestheticization of violence, which focuses on narrative and cinematic means of stylization over finely polished visual