...Nidesh Lawtoo In this interview, J. Hillis Miller and Nidesh Lawtoo take one of the most influential concepts in Western aesthetics, mimēsis , as an Ariadne’s thread to retrace the major turns in Miller’s career and, by extension, to promote a re- turn of mimesis in literary theory and criticism...

... Dell’impersonale (Einaudi, 2007), and Termini della Politica. Comunità, Immunità, Biopolitica (Mimesis Edizioni, 2008). Steven G. Kellman is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, author of Redemption: The Life of Henry...

... processes of social leveling. This ambiguous situation motivates Neil Leach’s sophisticated study, Camouflage, which surveys the treatment of camouflage and related topics like mimesis, mimicry, psychaesthenia, and performativity in fields as diverse...

... about the world in which they were produced. Williams  In a classic critical book like Mimesis, Erich Auerbach has great descriptions, pointing to the way that texts like the Bible or Mrs. Dalloway effect their realism. Marcus  Actually, I’m in the middle of revising an essay for MLQ...

..., 2009. Germano, William. Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books. 2nd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008. Girard, René. Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005. Ed. Robert Dolan. Cultural...

... . 2002 . Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition . Champaign : University of Illinois Press . Greenberg Clement . 1965 . Art and Culture: Critical Essays . Boston : Beacon Press . Halliwell Stephen . 2002 . The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Moderns Problems...

... with mimesis, with the virtual, the fictional, the literary —​in Freud’s terms, terms that lurk everywhere in “Passions,” with the logic of the fetish. “I know, but even so.” It is also inextricably tied, Derrida asserts, to democracy. When all hypotheses are permitted, groundless ad infinitum...

.... Kate Milieu's first book, Sexual Politics, was actually a dissertation, but Altman women who would never in a million years have read Mimesis read it. The same was true of Rich's On Lies, Secrets and Silence, and (on a smaller scale...

... writing and criticism. In his introduction to a reissue of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis, Said remarks in Arnoldian and even Leavisian cadence that there are “thus only a small number of books [that] seem perennially present and, by comparison with the vast majority of their counterparts, to have...

... mimesis, he was met with the antifigurative condemnations of Deacon Florus, who, a bit like Ratzinger, argued for liturgy s resistance to pagan jargon even while theorizing a new sense of liturgy as event. When Thomas Cranmer promoted the stripped-down Book of Common Prayer against the medieval church s...

... what I am grappling with at the moment, not always successfully; the question of literature as a mode of cognition, which is something that has been virtually banned from discussion for twenty years because of the critique of mimesis. I am not at all prescribing a return to literature...

... source for you is Erich Auerbach. There’s a section in Practicing New Historicism where you talk about Auerbach and how he starts each chapter in Mimesis with one passage, which in a way is how you unpack things from an anecdote. Greenblatt It is, after all, what you...

... in geography, anthropology, accounting, and political science who employ their own equally specialized techniques of representation to engage in comparable efforts to portray collective life” (2012, 24). Beyond its reasoned assertion, the very shape of this sentence —​ holding novelistic mimesis...

... the way feminists wrote about images of women thirty-five years ago. There are still some images of disability that are so clearly exploitative or evil that they have to be called out with regard to a mimesis, but it occurred to me that this has implications for narrative theory—to go back to one...

... passed through the age of deconstruction. Hillis Miller wrote a review of Natural Supernaturalism in which he said that it’s like Auerbach’s Mimesis—and he mentioned two or three other powerhouse books—the point of which was that you can’t write that kind of book any more...