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单词 mimesis
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Definition of mimesis in English:

mimesis

noun mʌɪˈmiːsɪsmɪˈmiːsɪsməˈmisɪs
mass noun
  • 1technical, formal Imitative representation of the real world in art and literature.

    (文学艺术中对真实世界的)模拟;表述

    Barth has always detached his use of plot from mimesis
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If Durer's art is one of representation, in which the role of mimesis is paramount, Grunewald's is an expressive art akin to poetry or music.
    • Dynamic repetition cannot be effectively portrayed, but can be performed in or by a literary text; in the place of mimesis, the literature of sensibility strives to develop such a performative aesthetic.
    • With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative.
    • More than a sheer representation of nature, mimesis, as an integrating part of the poetic function in fables, adds a tangible and active dimension to human tragedy.
    • The founding discovery of modernism has often been defined as the detachability of art from representation, from mimesis in the Aristotelian sense of unproblematic imitation.
    1. 1.1 The deliberate imitation of the behaviour of one group of people by another group as a factor in social change.
      (作为社会变化因素的)群体行为模仿
      culture is organized in terms of mimesis and desire
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While Sartre is clear about the politics of U.S.A.'s style, though, he fails to examine the novel's psychology, even as he at least suggests the general predicament concerning its characters at large can be explained in terms of mimesis.
      • The role of mimesis in constituting desire, however, is usually hidden from awareness, since humans like to think of their desires as original and spontaneous.
      • What impact mimesis might have on behaviour has been tendentious since Plato banished poets from the republic, yet we still lack a coherent theory for what exactly this impact would entail.
      • Firstly, she explores issues to do with authenticity and replication, then mimesis, and finally the connections between work, leisure, learning and pleasure.
      • For the Greeks and the Romans memory had an intellectual and cognitive function, and therefore mimesis, as a tool of social memory, relies on cognitive abilities, human or animal.
  • 2Zoology

    another term for mimicry
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The mimesis of the Cuckoo egg in relation to host eggs was estimated from the slides.
    • Since the latter half of the 19th century different modes of floral mimesis have been identified within all major lineages of angiosperms pollinated by some members of the Orders Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Greek mimēsis, from mimeisthai 'to imitate'.

Rhymes

amniocentesis, anamnesis, ascesis, catechesis, diesis, exegesis, prosthesis, psychokinesis, telekinesis

Definition of mimesis in US English:

mimesis

nounməˈmisɪsməˈmēsis
  • 1formal, technical Representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature.

    (文学艺术中对真实世界的)模拟;表述

    Barth has always detached his use of plot from mimesis
    Example sentencesExamples
    • More than a sheer representation of nature, mimesis, as an integrating part of the poetic function in fables, adds a tangible and active dimension to human tragedy.
    • If Durer's art is one of representation, in which the role of mimesis is paramount, Grunewald's is an expressive art akin to poetry or music.
    • With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative.
    • Dynamic repetition cannot be effectively portrayed, but can be performed in or by a literary text; in the place of mimesis, the literature of sensibility strives to develop such a performative aesthetic.
    • The founding discovery of modernism has often been defined as the detachability of art from representation, from mimesis in the Aristotelian sense of unproblematic imitation.
    1. 1.1 The deliberate imitation of the behavior of one group of people by another group as a factor in social change.
      (作为社会变化因素的)群体行为模仿
      culture is organized in terms of mimesis and desire
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Firstly, she explores issues to do with authenticity and replication, then mimesis, and finally the connections between work, leisure, learning and pleasure.
      • While Sartre is clear about the politics of U.S.A.'s style, though, he fails to examine the novel's psychology, even as he at least suggests the general predicament concerning its characters at large can be explained in terms of mimesis.
      • What impact mimesis might have on behaviour has been tendentious since Plato banished poets from the republic, yet we still lack a coherent theory for what exactly this impact would entail.
      • For the Greeks and the Romans memory had an intellectual and cognitive function, and therefore mimesis, as a tool of social memory, relies on cognitive abilities, human or animal.
      • The role of mimesis in constituting desire, however, is usually hidden from awareness, since humans like to think of their desires as original and spontaneous.
  • 2Zoology

    another term for mimicry
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since the latter half of the 19th century different modes of floral mimesis have been identified within all major lineages of angiosperms pollinated by some members of the Orders Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera.
    • The mimesis of the Cuckoo egg in relation to host eggs was estimated from the slides.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Greek mimēsis, from mimeisthai ‘to imitate’.

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