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Reflections.e. 335. and a move towards an assertion of individual creativity in which the productive relationship of one mimetic world to another is renounced 11. emotive. more recently. etc. Reflections. (Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Category: Representation (Arts), Psychology Cognitive Science, Psychological Concepts, Philosophical Movements, Epistemology. The University of Chicago:: Theories of Media:: Keywords Glossary:: mimesismimesis keywords cross references Nature creates similarities. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is mans. His gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like Works Cited something else. Perhaps there is none of his higher functions in which his mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role. Walter Benjamin, On the Mimetic Faculty 1933 The term mimesis is derived from the Greek mimesis, meaning to imitate 1. The OED defines mimesis as a figure of speech, whereby the words or actions of another are imitated and the deliberate imitation of the behavior of one group of people by another as a factor in social change 2. Mimicry is defined as the action, practice, or art of mimicking or closely imitating. Both terms are generally used to denote the imitation or representation of nature, especially in aesthetics (primarily literary and artistic media). In most cases, mimesis is defined as having two primary meanings - that of imitation (more specifically, the imitation of nature as object, phenomena, or process) and that of artistic representation. Mimesis is an extremely broad and theoretically elusive term that encompasses a range of possibilities for how the selfsufficient and symbolically generated world created by people can relate to any given real, fundamental, exemplary, or significant world 4 (see keywords essays on simulationsimulacra, (2), and reciprocity). Mimesis is integral to the relationship between art and nature, and to the relation governing works of art themselves. Michael Taussig describes the mimetic faculty as the nature that culture uses to create second nature, the faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore difference, yield into and become Other. The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on the character and power of the original, to the point whereby the representation may even assume that character and that power. Pre-Platonic thought tends to emphasize the representational aspects of mimesis and its denotation of imitation, representation, portrayal, andor the person who imitates or represents. Mimetic behavior was viewed as the representation of something animate and concrete with characteristics that are similar to the characteristics to other phenomena 6. Plato believed that mimesis was manifested in particulars which resemble or imitate the forms from which they are derived; thus, the mimetic world (the world of representation and the phenomenological world) is inherently inferior in that it consists of imitations which will always be subordinate or subsidiary to their original 7. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Bhabha, Homi. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse, October, 28: (Spring, 1984). Caillois, Roger. Mimicry and Legendary Psychoasthenia, Trans. Mimesis: Culture-Art-Society. Trans. Don Reneau. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Hansen, Miriam. Benjamin and Cinema: Not a One-Way Street, Critical Inquiry 25.2 (Winter 1998). Jay, Martin. Unsympathetic Magic, Visual Anthropology Review 9.2 (Fall 1993). Koch, Gertrud. Mimesis and Bilderverbot, Screen 34:3: (Autumn 1993). Sorbom, Goran. Mimesis and Art. Bonniers: Scandanavian University Books, 1966. In Republic, Plato views art as a mimetic imitation of an imitation (art mimes the phenomenological world which mimes an original, Notes 56. Childrens behavior is a prime example of the manner in which mimetic behavior is not restricted to man imitating man. New York: Schocken Books. Kelly. 1953). 8 Kelly. Aristotles Poesis. Mimesis. 15 Walter Benjamin. In 20th century approaches to mimesis. Reflections.e. 335. Reflections. (Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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