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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 257–269.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Jacob Hovind If Erich Auerbach's Mimesis is generally considered a landmark in twentieth-century literary criticism and an originary text for the modern practice of comparative literature, then this is despite the fact that its profound interpretive structures and hermeneutic consequences still...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Lara Harb Abstract The Aristotelian sense of mimesis (i.e., fictional representation of an evoked world through plot and characters) continues to shape modern views of literature. The medieval Arabic reception of the concept of mimesis and its closely related concept of mythos (fable, story...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 381–403.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Jane O. Newman; Ron Sadan Abstract Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), best known as the author of Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur (1946; Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature , 1953), wrote about the eighteenth-century philologist and philosopher...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 459–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in mimesis, which operates not only in the (very real) fantasy of the “life and work” continuum but also in the sensual experience of the text as the Other's life-words , an important aspect of Uno's authorial actuality. It is the body that finally brings these disparate modalities of mimesis...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 416–431.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Comment c'est as, on the one hand, a literalization of Adorno's ideas in Aesthetic Theory (in other words, as a kind of meta-text) and, on the other, as an exemplum of his views on the new, on unity and meaning, and on mimesis and expression. In doing so, I hope to deepen our understanding of the special...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 340–360.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Winslow and Charles Bowden, respectively. Reconsidering the classical notion of mimesis, this essay contends that, despite their varying proximity to their common referent—the drug trade—and their differing practices of realism, most narco-narratives replicate official representations of drug cartels...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 394–414.
Published: 01 December 2015
... a complex interplay between diegesis and mimesis at the heart of the plays. Shelley and Artaud might then be seen to co-opt the trauma scenario as an epistemological paradigm whereby their theaters assume revolutionary potential. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Shelley Artaud Cenci trauma...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 293–305.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to imagination’s psychological function—which was to create or cause the imaginable—al-Fārābī’s next move was to consider its relationship to aesthesis mediated through poetic mimesis. More precisely, he explored the way by which figurative language in its similitude of sensible experience engenders التخييل...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 312–327.
Published: 01 September 2005
...DANIEL FRIED University of Oregon 2005 Apter, Emily. “Global Translatio: The `Invention' of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933.” Critical Inquiry 29 ( 2003 ): 253 -81. Auerbach, Erich. “Epilegomena zu Mimesis.” Romanische Forschungen 65 ( 1953 ): 1 -18. ____. Literary...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 108–110.
Published: 01 March 2019
... role, and the moral good of mimesis. It is not a question that admits of a single or simple, much less immediate answer. To his credit Mazzone is patient in reconstructing the various stages of the “geological change in the system of literary genres starting from the second half of the eighteenth...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 105–107.
Published: 01 January 2004
... for narrated diegesis over mimesis in The Republic, which quickly became
eclipsed by the mimesis prescribed in Aristotle’s Poetics, to such an extent that Aristotelian
and not Socratic aesthetics have governed the growth of the Western theater (p. 14).
Puchner contends that this debate resumes...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 January 2004
... for narrated diegesis over mimesis in The Republic, which quickly became
eclipsed by the mimesis prescribed in Aristotle’s Poetics, to such an extent that Aristotelian
and not Socratic aesthetics have governed the growth of the Western theater (p. 14).
Puchner contends that this debate resumes...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 99–102.
Published: 01 January 2004
... for narrated diegesis over mimesis in The Republic, which quickly became
eclipsed by the mimesis prescribed in Aristotle’s Poetics, to such an extent that Aristotelian
and not Socratic aesthetics have governed the growth of the Western theater (p. 14).
Puchner contends that this debate resumes...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 102–104.
Published: 01 January 2004
... for narrated diegesis over mimesis in The Republic, which quickly became
eclipsed by the mimesis prescribed in Aristotle’s Poetics, to such an extent that Aristotelian
and not Socratic aesthetics have governed the growth of the Western theater (p. 14).
Puchner contends that this debate resumes...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 293–319.
Published: 01 September 2003
... crisis.12 By this twofold thrust, the second-order representa-
tion displaces the violence from the act of mimesis to its communication and
thereby liberates the counterforce that has been suppressed by the forces of an
idealizing neoclassicism, in the case of Poussin, or of Hellenism, in the case...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2008
... representation grounded in competing systems of moral vision
and commitment: allegory of the sort that the medieval Everyman typifies and what the
author somewhat eccentrically calls “neoclassicism,” the perfected mimesis achieved on
the seventeenth-century stage. As with any well-plotted story, the key...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 188–192.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in competing systems of moral vision
and commitment: allegory of the sort that the medieval Everyman typifies and what the
author somewhat eccentrically calls “neoclassicism,” the perfected mimesis achieved on
the seventeenth-century stage. As with any well-plotted story, the key lies in how it ends...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 193–197.
Published: 01 March 2008
... representation grounded in competing systems of moral vision
and commitment: allegory of the sort that the medieval Everyman typifies and what the
author somewhat eccentrically calls “neoclassicism,” the perfected mimesis achieved on
the seventeenth-century stage. As with any well-plotted story, the key...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in competing systems of moral vision
and commitment: allegory of the sort that the medieval Everyman typifies and what the
author somewhat eccentrically calls “neoclassicism,” the perfected mimesis achieved on
the seventeenth-century stage. As with any well-plotted story, the key lies in how it ends...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in competing systems of moral vision
and commitment: allegory of the sort that the medieval Everyman typifies and what the
author somewhat eccentrically calls “neoclassicism,” the perfected mimesis achieved on
the seventeenth-century stage. As with any well-plotted story, the key lies in how it ends...
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