Mimesis In Contemporary Theory An Interdisciplinary Approach

Author : Mihai Spariosu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 336 pages
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Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0915027135

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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: The literary and the philosophical debate by Mihai Spariosu Pdf

After almost two hundred years of relative obscurity mimesis finds itself again in the limelight of Western theoretical discourse. In the Anglo-American tradition, mimesis or 'imitation' regained some prominence, at the turn of the century, through S.H. Butcher's translation of and introduction to Aristotle's Poetics, and , in the thirties, through the work of the Chicago school, also centered around Aristotle. More recently, mimesis looms large in the work of Auerbach, Burke and Frye. But it is only in the past decade or so, with the publication in France of the work of Barthes, Derrida, Girard, Genette, and some of their collaborators, that mimesis has again become an object of heated controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. The present collection is designed not only to bring fresh points of view to the current debate, by drawing in other theoretical developments beside the Anglo-American and the French, but also to explain why mimesis has so stubbornly haunted our civilization.

Author : Mihai Spariosu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027280114

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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach by Mihai Spariosu Pdf

After almost two hundred years of relative obscurity mimesis finds itself again in the limelight of Western theoretical discourse. In the Anglo-American tradition, mimesis or ‘imitation’ regained some prominence, at the turn of the century, through S.H. Butcher’s translation of and introduction to Aristotle’s Poetics, and , in the thirties, through the work of the Chicago school, also centered around Aristotle. More recently, mimesis looms large in the work of Auerbach, Burke and Frye. But it is only in the past decade or so, with the publication in France of the work of Barthes, Derrida, Girard, Genette, and some of their collaborators, that mimesis has again become an object of heated controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. The present collection is designed not only to bring fresh points of view to the current debate, by drawing in other theoretical developments beside the Anglo-American and the French, but also to explain why mimesis has so stubbornly haunted our civilization.

Author : Ronald Bogue
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027277855

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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach by Ronald Bogue Pdf

The essays collected in this volume focus on the interrelated themes of mimesis, semiosis and power, each study exploring some facet of the problem of representation and its relation to strategies of power in the use of verbal and visual signs. Topics discussed include mimesis and power in Plato's Ion, rhetoric and erotics in Petrarch's thought; the limits of visual and verbal representation in Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation; binary thought and Peirce's triadic semiotics; the cinematic semiotics of Gilles Deleuze; fascist iconography in the paintings of Anselm Kiefer; oppositional strategies in postmodern fiction; visual and verbal representations of the body in mass culture; and the semiotics of violence in postmodern popular culture.

Author : Ronald Bogue
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Mimesis in literature
ISBN : 9789027242259

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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: Mimesis, semiosis, and power by Ronald Bogue Pdf

Author : Ronald Bogue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1027242251

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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory by Ronald Bogue Pdf

Author : Ronald Bogue,John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9027242240

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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory by Ronald Bogue,John Benjamins Publishing Company Pdf

Author : Mihai Spariosu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066453631

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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory by Mihai Spariosu Pdf

Annotation After almost two hundred years of relative obscurity mimesis finds itself again in the limelight of Western theoretical discourse. In the Anglo-American tradition, mimesis or 'imitation' regained some prominence, at the turn of the century, through S.H. Butcher's translation of and introduction to Aristotle's Poetics, and, in the thirties, through the work of the Chicago school, also centered around Aristotle. More recently, mimesis looms large in the work of Auerbach, Burke and Frye. But it is only in the past decade or so, with the publication in France of the work of Barthes, Derrida, Girard, Genette, and some of their collaborators, that mimesis has again become an object of heated controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. The present collection is designed not only to bring fresh points of view to the current debate, by drawing in other theoretical developments beside the Anglo-American and the French, but also to explain why mimesis has so stubbornly haunted our civilization.

Author : Mihai Spariosu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027242235

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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory by Mihai Spariosu Pdf

After almost two hundred years of relative obscurity mimesis finds itself again in the limelight of Western theoretical discourse. In the Anglo-American tradition, mimesis or 'imitation' regained some prominence, at the turn of the century, through S.H. Butcher's translation of and introduction to Aristotle's Poetics, and , in the thirties, through the work of the Chicago school, also centered around Aristotle. More recently, mimesis looms large in the work of Auerbach, Burke and Frye. But it is only in the past decade or so, with the publication in France of the work of Barthes, Derrida, Girard, Genette, and some of their collaborators, that mimesis has again become an object of heated controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. The present collection is designed not only to bring fresh points of view to the current debate, by drawing in other theoretical developments beside the Anglo-American and the French, but also to explain why mimesis has so stubbornly haunted our civilization.

Author : Laleen Jayamanne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253214750

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Toward Cinema and Its Double by Laleen Jayamanne Pdf

Jayamanne brings together her discussions of Australian films, Sri Lankan films, European art films, silent film comedy, contemporary American films and her own films.

Author : Iain Walker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527551237

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Becoming the Other, Being Oneself by Iain Walker Pdf

The island of Ngazidja lies at the southern end of the monsoon wind system and its inhabitants, the Wangazidja, have participated in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean for two millennia. The enduring contacts between the Wangazidja and their trading partners have subjected them to a variety of social and cultural influences—from the Swahili coast, from the African hinterland, from the Arabian peninsula, from Indonesia and, more recently, from Europe. This book looks at the strategies called into play by Wangazidja in negotiating this encounter with the outside world; it discusses how they incorporate this variety of influences into their own social and cultural modes of practice while all the time remaining (in the words of one observer) “authentic.” Drawing on the work of thinkers such as Theodor Adorno, René Girard and Michael Taussig, the author develops the theoretical concept of mimesis in an analysis of these transformations, increasingly relevant in the contemporary context of globalization, showing how firmly anchored social structures are able to incorporate what seem to be practices imitative of the Other.

Author : Martta Heikkilä
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793619051

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Deconstruction and the Work of Art by Martta Heikkilä Pdf

The contemporary idea of the “work of art” is paradoxically both widely used and often unexamined. Therefore, we must re-evaluate the concept before we can understand what the deconstruction of aesthetics means for thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. By examining their analyses of works of visual art and contextualizing their thinking on the matter, Martta Heikkilä asserts that the implications of the “work of art,” “art,” and “the aesthetic” apply not only to philosophical questions but also to a broader area. Instead of the totality represented by the historical concept of Art, poststructuralist thinkers introduce the idea of the radical multiplicity of art and its works. From this notion arises the fundamental issue in Derrida and the poststructuralist tradition: how can we speak philosophically of art, which always exists as singular instances, as works? In Deconstruction and the Work of Art: Visual Arts and Their Critique in Contemporary French Thought, Heikkilä shows that the deconstructionist notions of art are still influential in the discourses of contemporary art, in which artworks proliferate and the concept of “work” is open-ended and expanding. This book offers an introduction to the deconstructionist theory of art and brings new perspectives to the complex, undecidable relation between philosophy and art.

Author : Ronald Bogue,Mihai I. Spariosu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780791496985

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The Play of the Self by Ronald Bogue,Mihai I. Spariosu Pdf

This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between play and mimesis in the constitution and dissolution of the individual and social self. The volume is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the mimetic-ludic foundations of mind, memory, and desire; the second on the social and psychological self as agent of playful performance and product of cultural codes; and the third on the interplay of psyche, image, and power in literary and artistic representations of the self. The subjects of the individual studies vary widely, from the interrelation of power and play in Orlando Furioso to the ludic foundations of cognition to the concept of the self in Foucault and Deleuze.

Author : Stephen Halliwell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400825301

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The Aesthetics of Mimesis by Stephen Halliwell Pdf

Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry, painting, and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis, at all stages of its evolution, has been a more complex, variable concept than its conventional translation of "imitation" can now convey. Far from providing a static model of artistic representation, mimesis has generated many different models of art, encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms, mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls "world-reflecting" and "world-simulating" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art. Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions, Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.

Author : Dorothy Figueira
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847010937

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Rebuilding the Profession by Dorothy Figueira Pdf

This volume is meant to be a retrospective look at the field of Comparative Literature as it has developed in the past two decades, as well as a reflection on its future direction if it is to remain relevant (and innovative) as a field of study. From its inception in the second half of the twentieth century, Comparative Literature in the US has been conceived as a cross-disciplinary, cross-national, and crosscultural enterprise that brings together theoretical developments in the Humanities and Social Sciences to reflect on the most important intellectual and cultural trends from a comparative perspective through the lens of literary studies. Most of the founders of Comparative Literature were distinguished European scholars who sought a safe haven from the ravages of World War II and its aftermath and who, understandably focused on the Western literary, intellectual and cultural tradition, which at the time was in danger of being annihilated by the onslaught of Fascism and Communism. With the advent of the age of globalization the field of Comparative Literature has become increasingly diverse and must, therefore, be reoriented and recognized accordingly.

Author : Anne Fleche
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780817308384

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Mimetic Disillusion by Anne Fleche Pdf

The book focuses on two major writers of the 1930s and 1940s - Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams - one whose writing career was just ending and the other whose career was just beginning.