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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    04 December 2009
    26 January 1995
    ISBN:
    9780511597732
    9780521458566
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597732
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.25kg, 204 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Philosophy: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Literature, Culture, Theory (12)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Philosophy: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Literature, Culture, Theory (12)
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    Mimesis, with its connecting concepts of imitation, simile, and similarity, has been cited since classical times in the exploration of the relationship between art and reality. In this major study Arne Melberg discusses the theory and history of mimesis through narratological analysis of texts by Plato, Cervantes, Rousseau, and Kierkegaard. Moving away from the relatively straightforward 'representation of reality' ideas in Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946), Melberg brings the concept of mimesis into the context of the literary theories of de Man and others. Theories of Mimesis is a strenuously argued account of language and time, charting the movement of mimesis from the Platonic philosophy of similarity to modern ideas of difference.

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