mimesis

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Watson concludes that “this is mimesis at its finest”; the semicolons hold the prose “in suspension,” and the reader in suspense, waiting, along with King, for justice.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

I still wonder if this is a kind of clever mimesis.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2018

In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018

In the same essay, Chaudhuri claimed it was time for the “postmodernist Indian English novel” to reject “a mimesis of form, where the largeness of the book allegorizes the largeness of the country it represents.”

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2016

Poor Volucella, mimesis has not taught you enough.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander