mimesis
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Issue 2 is also an exercise in mimesis.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021
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
Their imitation of those desires, which he termed mimesis, is imitated by others in turn, leading to escalating and often destructive competition.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2015
What they felt was not mimesis but “participation,” unity, and community.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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