0 the act of representing or imitating reality in art, especially literature: --
For both Plato and Aristotle, artistic mimesis is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.
The contrast between discovery and invention, or the degree of intervention of the composer provides another dimension for the articulation of mimesis.
The frightening reality is that mimesis cuts both ways.
The most common is low mimesis, in which the actions of others are deemed, like "ours," to be ordinary and unexciting.
Like a painter striving for perfect mimesis, an embodied consciousness might use patches of red in the head to represent a red apple.
The building is not just the arrogant and callous mimesis of one particular 'style'.
The tapes offer the first sustained literary experiment in the mimesis of the spontaneous immediacy of personal interractions.
The mimesis that operates the elision of the dividing line between fiction, journalism, folkloristics and song is here used as a means of interpretive privilege.
These performances are mimetic representations, of course, but by largely substituting the conventions of popular clowning for those of dramatic impersonation they effectively mock mimesis.
