mimesis

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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

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

Being an artist who’s interested in mimesis and the new stuff, what are the tools available to the artist now?

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2016

It is a most striking case of mimesis.'

From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander