Theories of Mimesis

Theories of Mimesis
ISBN-10
0521452252
ISBN-13
9780521452250
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
1995-01-26
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Arne Melberg

Description

Mimesis has long been cited as a key concept in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis through analysis of texts by Plato, Cervantes, Rousseau and Kierkegaard, and brings mimesis as a concept into the context of the literary theories of de Man and others. This strenuously argued account of language and time charts the movement of mimesis from the Platonic philosophy of similarity to modern ideas of difference.

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