mimesis
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I still wonder if this is a kind of clever mimesis.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2018
In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.
From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018
In the same essay, Chaudhuri claimed it was time for the “postmodernist Indian English novel” to reject “a mimesis of form, where the largeness of the book allegorizes the largeness of the country it represents.”
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2016
His first work, published in French in 1961 and in English in 1965 as “Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,” introduced the idea of mimesis through readings of classic novels.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2015
The habit of this mimesis of the thing desired, is set up, and ritual begins.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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