Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Approaching mimesis : Part one. Foundations : Plato's Republic : The invention of the image ; Poetry and censorship: Books two and three ; Mirrors and forms: Book ten ; Poetry and the city -- Aristotle's Poetics : Second nature ; Tragedy, plot, and reason ; The tragic effect -- Part two. Three versions of mimesis : Imitatio: rhetorical imitation : Mimesis as a cultural practice ; Roman echoes ; Ancients and moderns ; Genius, originality, and the anxiety of influence -- Theatre and theatricality : Spectacle and spectator ; Theatrum mundi ; Acting, naturally ; 'The never ending show' -- Realism : The grapes of Zeuxis ; Reflection and convention ; Realism and sincerity ; Pygmalion's folly: anti-realism -- Part three: Mimesis in modern theory : Mimesis and identity : Psychic mimesis ; Identification: Freud ; The mirror stage: Lacan ; Performing race and gender -- Mimesis and culture : Sympathetic magic ; Mimicry and the mimetic faculty ; Mimetic desire: Girard ; Simulacra and hyperreality -- Conclusion: Memetics.
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