Mimesis /
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| Author / Creator: | Potolsky, Matthew. |
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| Imprint: | New York ; London : Routledge, 2006. |
| Description: | viii, 176 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The new critical idiom New critical idiom. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5998060 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Approaching Mimesis
- Part 1. Foundations
- 1. Plato's Republic
- The Invention of the Image
- Poetry and Censorship: Books Two and Three
- Mirrors and Forms: Book Ten
- Poetry and the City
- 2. Aristotle's Poetics
- Second Nature
- Tragedy, Plot, and Reason
- The Tragic Effect
- Part 2. Three Versions of Mimesis
- 3. Imitatio: Rhetorical Imitation
- Mimesis as a Cultural Practice
- Roman Echoes
- Ancients and Moderns
- Genius, Originality, and the Anxiety of Influence
- 4. Theatre and Theatricality Spectacle and Spectator
- Theatrum Mundi
- Acting, Naturally'The Never Ending Show'
- 5. Realism
- The Grapes of Zeuxis
- Reflection and Convention
- Realism and Sincerity
- Pygmalion's Folly: Anti-Realism
- Part 3. Mimesis in Modern Theory
- 6. Mimesis and Identity
- Psychic Mimesis
- Identification: Freud
- The Mirror Stage: Lacan
- Performing Race and Gender
- 7. Mimesis and Culture
- Sympathetic Magic
- Mimicry and the Mimetic Faculty
- Mimetic Desire: Girard
- Simulacra and Hyperreality
- Conclusion: Memetics
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
