mimesis
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Issue 2 is also an exercise in mimesis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021
Watson concludes that “this is mimesis at its finest”; the semicolons hold the prose “in suspension,” and the reader in suspense, waiting, along with King, for justice.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
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
We shall see this more clearly if we examine for a moment this Greek word mimesis.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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