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Informationen zum Autor Gunter Gebauer and Christoph Wulf are Professors in the Center for Historical Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin and the authors of several works of literary and cultural criticism. Don Reneau is a translator and writer in Berkeley! California. Klappentext "A fundamental historical account of the much-cited but little-studied concept of mimesis! and an essential starting point for all future discussions of this crucial critical concept."-Hayden White Zusammenfassung Mimesis, the notion that art imitates reality, has long been recognized as one of the central ideas of Western aesthetics. Less well documented is the importance of mimetic theories of literature, theatre and the visual arts. This book contains an overview of the theory of mimesis in all its forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Point of Departure On Auerbach's History of Mimesis Worldmaking and Social Pressure Literary and Social Mimesis Part I. Mimesis as Imitation, the Production of Appearances, and Fiction 2. On the Origins of the Concept 3. Imitation, Illusion, Image (Plato) Similarity, Imitation, Education Appearance and lllusion Images as Appearances with the Character of Similarity 4. The Break in the History of Mimesis: The Use of Writing Oral Poetry Between Oral and Literate Culture 5. Poetic Mimesis (Aristotle) Part II. Mimesis as lmitatio, the Expression of Power, and Literate Subjectivity 6. Mimesis as lmitatio 7. Poetics and Power in the Renaissance 8. lntertextuality, Fragmentation, Desire: Erasmus, Montaigne, Shakespeare Part III. Mimesis as Enactment of the State 9. The Conflict Over History: The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes On the History of the Conflict Racine and Moliere Structural Results 10. Mimesis as the Self-Representation of Political Power The Portrait of the King On the Dramatic Practice of French Classicism The Representation of Daily Life in Comedy 11. Against Mimesis as Self-Representation The Critique of Self-Representation in Madame de Lafayette Negative Anthropology Two Attempts to Transcend Mimesis Part IV. From Imitation to the Constitution of the Creative Subject 12. Problems in the Imitation of Nature in the Eighteenth Century 13. Mimesis in the Theater of the Enlightenment 14. Diderot's Paradox of Acting 15. The Transformation of Mimesis in Lessing Lessing's Argument 16. Self-Mimesis (Rousseau) Self-Formation Pedagogy and Seduction Part V. Mimesis as the Principle of Worldmaking in the Novel and Society 17. The Mimetic Constitution of Social Reality Images of a Society Balzac's Illusions perdues 225 18. "Mimetic Desire" in the Work of Girard 19. Violence in Antiromantic Literature The Authorial I and Others The Relationships of I and Other in the Novel Language, Violence, and the Internal Perspective 20. The Mimesis of Violence (Girard) Part VI. Mimesis as Entree to the World, Language, and Writing 21. Nonsensuous Similarity: On the Linguistic Anthropology of Benjamin 22. Vital Experience (Adorno) 23. The Between-Character of Mimesis (Derrida) Results Historical Positions of Mimesis The Dimensions of Mimesis Notes Bibliography Index...
