Mimesis

Introduction: Approaching Mimesis  Part 1: Foundations  1. Plato's Republic  The Invention of the Image.  Poetry and Censorship: Books Two and Three.  Mirrors and Forms: Book Ten.  Poetry and the City  2. Aristotle's Poetics  Second Nature.  Tragedy, Plot, and Reason.  The Tragic Effect  Part 2: Three Versions of Mimesis  3. Imitatio: Rhetorical Imitation  Mimesis as a Cultural Practice.  Roman Echoes.  Ancients and Moderns.  Genius, Originality, and the Anxiety of Influence  4. Theatre and Theatricality Spectacle and Spectator.  Theatrum Mundi.  Acting, Naturally.  'The Never Ending Show'.  5. Realism  The Grapes of Zeuxis.  Reflection and Convention.  Realism and Sincerity.  Pygmalion's Folly: Anti-Realism.  Part 3: Mimesis in Modern Theory  6. Mimesis and Identity  Psychic Mimesis.  Identification: Freud.  The Mirror Stage: Lacan.  Performing Race and Gender.  7. Mimesis and Culture  Sympathetic Magic.  Mimicry and the Mimetic Faculty.  Mimetic Desire: Girard  Simulacra and Hyperreality.  Conclusion: Memetics