...Elizabeth R. Johnson In 1993 Michael Taussig's Mimesis and Alterity revitalized the power of the mimetic faculty to craft a vision of nature that was neither the alienated subject of modern science nor the passively malleable medium of late twentieth-century social constructivism. Taussig drew...

...P. F. Baum Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature . By Auerbach Erich . Translated from the German by Trask Willard R. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1953 . Pp. 563 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 428 The South...

...Ihab H. Hassan CRITICISM AS MIMESIS Ihab H. Hassan TO JUDGE from a remark of Edmund Wilson made in 1928, What we lack in the United States, is not writers or even literary parties, but simply serious literary criticism. . . . Without defending or inveighing against criticism let us try...

... Smyth of two friends who share an enemy in common. The seemingly hap­ hazard connection made by these two analogies would appeal to Rene Girard, whose anthropology is founded on the twin principles of mimesis and exclusion: in brief, the mimetic scapegoating of an arbitrarily selected enemy or victim...

... in the Aristotelian para- digm guarantee a thorough neutralization of the activity of mimesis? Can we so easily split the Poetics from the Rhetoric or the Politics or the Nicho- machean Ethics? Can we so easily overlook the evidently political function of cultural forms such as ancient Greek theater...

.... This volume comes as near to being a definitive history of these ten years in the discovery and settlement of Spanish America as time and archives will permit. alan k. Manchester Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. By Erich Auerbach. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask...

... or symbolic, access to nature that is, a mimetic access to it. Mimesis, though never specifically defined, serves as a counterpoint to instrumental rationality in the literature of critical theory and, in this tradition, implies substantive relational components among things-in-the-world beyond those...

... are fetishized to veil their true value, labor, this then raises two important ques- tions. If students are being prepared as commodities, what kind of fetishized commodities are they? What forms of labor go into the education that com- modifies them? Mimesis and Ritual Reenactments of Learning Together...

... mobilization. Once clearly audible or visible racist representations could be shown as the exception rather than the rule in Western media and its public spheres, the postracial was simply a horizon waiting to happen. Racism’s Conceptual Mimesis Mimesis describes both mimicry and copying. During...

... material reproduction and rhetorical mimesis. Both Malthus s moralistic response to the economic perils of precipitous and illicit reproduction and the Wordsworthian ideal of a parthogenesis by which his authentic poetic spirits would materialize into authentic poets and their legitimate, middle-class...

... calvo is associate professor of American literature and culture at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Currently she is work- ing on a comparative study of the border and its literary reflection in the United States and Spain. Her publications include Intercultural Mediations: Mimesis and Hybridity...

... essence of the Old Testament for Western tradition. This in turn led Auerbach to a comprehensive study that would explore representations of reality from ancient times to the present, the result being his masterful Mimesis (1946), 468 The South Atlantic Quarterly one of those rare humanistic studies...

... from the end of Auerbach’s Mimesis is quite astonishing, particularly in view of the sensitive close readings he has performed: The more it is exploited, the more the elementary things which our...

... as an imitation of an action, such an introduction is timely. Moreover, because States understands his audience and writes with clarity unmarred by either jargon or condescension, it is also useful. A conventional review of theater conceived of as mimesis would probably begin with Aristotle and end with someone...

...://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/foucault-interview/ . Zanardi Maurizio . 2007 . “ Vita e concetto .” In Dopo Foucault: genealogie del postmoderno , edited by De Conciliis Eleonora , 281 – 296 . Rome : Mimesis Edizioni . Gavin Walker The Late Foucault and the Allegories of Theory...

... is described as subject-centered reason ex­ cept by way of the inadequate appeal to aesthetic mimesis that Habermas regards as his greatest and most decisive fault. The South Atlantic Quarterly 96:4, Fall 1997. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press. 756 Martin Morris The crux ofthe Habermassian position...

... ‘‘Boom’’ in the Neoliberal Marketplace (2001), and Secondary Moderns: Mimesis, History, and Revolution in Lezama Lima’s ‘‘American Expression’’ (1996). arturo leyte teaches philosophy at Vigo University in Spain. He has been a collaborative researcher at the Bayern Academy of Sciences in Munich since...

... use of late eighteenth-century minor fiction, but traces an artist s growth into the Nineteenth Century with almost no refer­ ence to the new developments in narrative described by Kroeber in Romantic Narrative Art or Auerbach in Mimesis. As for moral back­ grounds, we look in vain...

... initial assumption that to read is to enter a domain of quasi-sensory perception. Asked to witness the operation of Vorstellung, we effectively become aware of mimesis as an effect of hypersimulation. If ‘‘mimesis...

... echoed by Fritz Kramer, referring to the ritual appropriation of European colonialist visual and political cultures by diverse African and other indigenous peoples during and after colonization.27 Mimesis, Taus- sig has argued, is based on the belief among indigenous peoples that rep- resentation...