![]() ![]() The volume engages with the 'internationalising' of the curriculum as well as the globalization of literature and theory. ![]() Each section also includes annotated suggestions for further reading to help the reader navigate the extensive literature on each topic. The volume is thoroughly introduced in the General Introduction and Section Introductions and each piece is contextualised within the wider sphere of global theory. Mimesis is concerned primarily with the object imitated or reproduced and also the medium of imitation.Global Literary Theory: An Anthology comprises a selection of classic, must-read essays alongside contemporary and global extracts, providing an engaging and timely overview of literary theory. Aristotle’s Poetics also known as “On the Art of Imitation” is an important text on the study of art as imitation. ![]() The artist, that is, imitates reality by suppressing accidental irrelevances and by heightening the essential which is otherwise only imperfectly realized in concrete objects. Indeed, the main thrust of mimesis is that certain poems simply tell what happens and others (drama) actually imitate what happens. According to Aristotle, mimesis is men in action, their characters, deeds, passions, and experiences while poetic imitation is an imitation of the human inner action. Drama for instance, imitates men in action. However, it should be noted that art does not merely imitate the flux and confusion that confront man rather it imitates the necessary or probable consequences of given persons in given situations-even of imaginary persons and situation s. Aristotle, the proponent of the mimetic theory of art, holds that art imitates the reality existing in us and in the concrete objects around us. ![]()
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