Mimesis

ISBN-13: 9780415700306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str.

Matthew Potolsky

Opis

The term mimesis has long been used to refer to the relationship between an image and its 'real' original. A multidisciplinary study of a term returning to the forefront of contemporary theory, this is a guide for readers in such fields as literature, performance and cultural studies.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Matthew Potolsky is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah where he teaches literary theory and modern British and comparative literature. He is co-editor of Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1999) and has published on theory and late nineteenth century writing.