I sometimes wonder if mimesis is really about how closely a work of art imitates life at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life imitates art] Reference

Where mimesis is breached and the figurative function of the semiotic milieu foregrounded, the result may be a radical schism from reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

Top Picks Stockholm Art Western art has many traditions but none quite so strong as that invoked by the Greek term mimesis, or "representation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing With Perception] Reference

Her version of mimesis is strong enough for virtual worldmaking: it is a repeatable method for stimulating in the body an image that responds to the content of a particular idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Is Reading] Reference

Imitation was called mimesis in Greek and imitatio in Latin: it is the same term in different languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIMESIS] Reference

This, it seems to me, relates to what elsewhere I refer to under the term 'mimesis' (probably I've broadened the scope of the term).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nouslife] Reference

It’s also the type of more twistedly mimetic approach that I’m still calling mimesis in complete conflict with your definition of the term.    From Wordnik.com.  [War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…] Reference

Briefly, Plotinus rethinks the conception of mimesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CREATIVITY IN ART] Reference

We use mimesis on the one hand, fantasy on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting the Links Out] Reference

Social selection also takes place by mimesis or emulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mimesis on Wall Street] Reference

There's even a word for this psychological tendency: mimesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Salmansohn: The Power of Cleavage] Reference

For Democritus mimesis was an imitation of the way nature functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIMESIS] Reference

The notion of mimesis, missing from the Ion, now takes center stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry] Reference

The aesthetic ideal of the Greeks was mimesis: the imitation of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Setting the Record Straight] Reference

Unlike most of his contemporaries, Plato regarded mimesis as dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Aesthetics] Reference

Aristotle's distinction is that mimesis is much more than mere copying.    From Wordnik.com.  [A thought on selectivity in art] Reference

Nowhere does he say that the detail of the mimesis is supremely important.    From Wordnik.com.  [A thought on selectivity in art] Reference

The word “mimesis” is post-Homeric: it does not occur in either Homer or Hesiod.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIMESIS] Reference

In book III, the focus shifts to mimesis understood as what one commentator has called.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry] Reference

This has been the biggest influence of the last year or so, introducing me to Rene Girard and mimesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten books that have influenced me] Reference

But you're thinking, I take it, of a richer mimesis of cultural forms as part of the goal of immersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Us Being Human] Reference

The word “mimesis” had, in a general sense, been applied both to poetry and the arts long before Plato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

In his Poetics Aristotle also uses formal relationships as a foundation of beauty; the mimesis of action in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

At that time, art was still primarily a dialogue with nature but mimesis must not be confined to resemblance.    From Wordnik.com.  [18th Century French Aesthetics] Reference

Plato applies it to literary forms, and in so doing he gives a new meaning to mimesis — that of imper - sonation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference

A country that mastered Occupation 101 through mimesis now sets the paradigm for how to nuance hubris and runaway power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Israeli Style] Reference

There's a minor tradition within the science fiction community of using mimetic and mimesis to mean the opposite of the fantastic.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Mimetic Fiction"] Reference

The rude mechanicals who stage 'Pyramus and Thisbe' for the court of Theseus are vibrantly attuned to drama's potential for mimesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

Aristotle called this kind of representation of human life, in the concentrated form of dramatic action (or epic narrative), mimesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Aristotle understood a tragedy to be an artificial thing, an imitation (mimesis) of the nature of man coming to mature self-realization.    From Wordnik.com.  [SENSE OF THE TRAGIC] Reference

What is more, the sorts of pleasures that mimesis arouses are emotional and appetitive, appealing more to the body than to the intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Aesthetics] Reference

OH, Also, Lex can be in the movie, he can be be evil, he can even be the president, but lets not make him the arch-mimesis this next time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday Discussion: Where Do You Want to See Superman Go? « FirstShowing.net] Reference

Since the Berlin Wall came down, and the U. S.S.R was dissolved, a dreadful mimesis has maimed, and forever defaced, many autonomous states.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth and Anna P.] Reference

In this, incidentally, Maritain's efforts to show that Aristotle's idea of art as mimesis are wholly compatible with his own scheme are none too successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 1: Modernism and the Scholastic Revival] Reference