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mimesis

[mi-mee-sis, mahy-] / mɪˈmi sɪs, maɪ- /




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Issue 2 is also an exercise in mimesis.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021

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

In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2018

Her newest project explores mimesis, or lifelike replication, in both 15th-century paintings and synthetic biology.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2016

The origin of art is not mimesis, but mimesis springs up out of art, out of emotional expression, and constantly and closely neigh47bours it.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen




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