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Abstract The meaning of the term mimesis when applied to artistic works in Aristotle’s Poetics is thought to be extrapolated from its dictionary definition of ‘imitation’. I argue that a key word in the single passage directly linking mimesis to imitation has been consistently misunderstood. A correct reading could indicate mimesis has a different definition in this particular text only indirectly related to its colloquial use. I conclude that mimesis in the Poetics may be a narrower technical term that refers to a particular kind of organization or arrangement of individual imitations within an artistic work.
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Loren D. Marsh (Wed,) studied this question.
www.synapsesocial.com/papers/68e7230db6db64358769d508 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10239
Loren D. Marsh
Mnemosyne
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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