mimesis

IPA: mˈɪmʌsɪs

The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art.
(biology) Mimicry.
(medicine) The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present.
(rhetoric) The rhetorical pedagogy of imitation.
(rhetoric) The imitation of another's gestures, pronunciation, or utterance.

Examples of "mimesis" in Sentences

I sometimes wonder if mimesis is really about how closely a work of art imitates life at all.
While the term mimesis surfaces in numerous fields with diverse connotations, in Girard desire itself tends to be mimetic or imitative.
Where mimesis is breached and the figurative function of the semiotic milieu foregrounded, the result may be a radical schism from reality.
Top Picks Stockholm Art Western art has many traditions but none quite so strong as that invoked by the Greek term mimesis, or "representation."
Her version of mimesis is strong enough for virtual worldmaking: it is a repeatable method for stimulating in the body an image that responds to the content of a particular idea.
To free repetition from mimesis is to allow it, as Adrian Parr puts it, "the possibility of reinvention, that is to say repetition dissolves identities as it changes them, giving rise to something unrecognisable and productive"
Scarry's humanism shares in this technoaestheticism: "Her version of mimesis is strong enough for virtual worldmaking: it is a specific, repeatable method for stimulating in the human body an image that responds to the content of a particular idea."