Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective: Mallarme, Flaubert, and Eminescu
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (558 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1412818672 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 251 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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In modern literary criticism, mimesis has received renewed attention in the last two or three decades and been subject to wide-ranging interpretations. Babuts describes this phenomenon with great insight, showing how new traditions are formed.. He identifies two main strands: the mimetic relation of art and poetry to the world, defined in terms of reference to an external reality, and the importance of memory in the making of plots or storytelling.Babuts suggests that there is a material identity we cannot know beyond the limits of our senses and intellect and a symbolic or coded identity that is processed by memory. Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term going back to Aristotle. Nicolae Babuts looks at the concept of mimesis from a cognitive perspective. All writers, including Mallarmé in his esoteric poetry, Flaub
Nicolae Babuts is emeritus professor of French at Syracuse University and author of Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective and Memory, Metaphors, and Meaning, both published by Transaction, as well as other important books and articles.
He argues that despite efforts over the past 40 years to transform literature into ideologically interpreted history, literature is neither ideology nor history, but transfigured reality. B. Kerr, CHOICE “If you enjoy reading literary theory and subtle analyses of nineteenth-century fiction and theory, then Mimesis in a Cognitive Perspective: Mallarmé, Flaubert, and Eminescu is the book for you…. Kennedy, and Lady Diana, while analyzing the dynamics of rumor in oral culture. “Two fundamental questions underlie the subject of this thought-provoking study: What is the relationship between fiction and reality? What is the role of memory in storytelling and the writing of plots? Contrary to poststructuralists and postmodernists,