“…Genealogy of one of the most ancient and influential concepts in western thought: Mimesis Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. …”

Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Gregory's life and work -- Emergence of the feast days -- Rhetoric and liturgy -- Festal anamnesis -- Festal mimesis -- A feast without the liturgical calendar? …”

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Sumario

“…In Writing Joyce, Lorraine Weir proposes a paradigm shift in Joyce studies away from the preoccupation with referential mimesis and toward a theory of processual mimesis and a materialist semiotics. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Subcortical Consonance and Dissonance Perception -- Cortical Consonance and Dissonance Perception -- Consonance and Dissonance in Theatre -- Line/Melody -- Harmony -- Conclusion: Consonance and Dissonance and Time -- Ten Questions -- Things to Share -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part IV Theatre = Song + Mimesis -- 9 Ritual, Arousal, Reward, Ecstasy -- Introduction: From High Mass to Ecstasy -- The Development of Ritual, Shamanism, and Altered States of Consciousness -- Theatre = Song + Mimesis -- The Neuroscience of Arousal and Reward in the Altered States of Consciousness of Shamanism and Theatre -- Introduction: Dreams, Altered States of Consciousness and Theatre -- The Basic Neuroscience of Arousal -- The Effect of Music on Physiological Systems -- The Effect of Music on Psychological Systems -- Cognitive Models for Music in Theatre -- Robert Thayer's Model of Psychological Moods -- Berlyne's Theory of Arousal in Aesthetics and Psychobiology -- Conclusion: Experiments in Ecstasy -- Ten Questions, Part I -- Things to Share, Part I -- Ten Questions Part II -- Things to Share, Part II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Music, Mimesis, Memory -- Introduction: Traveling Backward in Time -- The New Stone Age -- Memory -- Introduction -- Sensory Memory -- Long Auditory Store/Short Term Memory/Working Memory -- Long-Term Memory…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Broken Mirror: The Crisis of Artistic Mimesis -- Chapter 5. The Guided Dream: The Riddle of Poetic Inspiration -- Chapter 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The new aestheticism: an introduction / Aesthetic education and the demise of experience / Art in time of war: towards a contemporary aesthetic / Mimesis in black and white: feminist aesthetics, negativity and semblance / What comes after art? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unheeded Warnings -- Chapter 4. Mimesis as Resistance -- Chapter 5. What Begins With Cratylus, Leads to Baudrillard -- Chapter 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Missed Understandings -- 1 Reading Political Theory in Postwar America and Postwar France -- 2 Mimesis, the explication de texte, and State Thinking -- PART II Dispositionalities -- Preface -- 3 Jean Wahl, Empirico-Criticism, and the Concrete -- 4 Simone de Beauvoir and the Elementary Structures of Patriarchy -- 5 More than a Unity: Gilbert Simondon's Sentimental Empiricism -- 6 Gilles Deleuze: Displacing Reflection -- 7 Michel Foucault and the Political Ontology of the Dispositif -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Grounding narratology in the concept of world -- Truth: discourse types and theories of truth -- Fiction: the possible worlds approach to fiction and its rival theories -- Narrator: decomposing a theoretical primitive -- Characters: textual, philosophical, and "world" approaches to character ontology -- Plot: cheap plot tricks, plot holes, and narrative design -- Mimesis and diegesis: complementing each other -- Parallel worlds: physics, narrative, and the multiverse -- Impossible worlds: dealing with logical contradiction -- Virtual worlds: narrative and VR technology -- Transmedia worlds: industry buzzword or new narrative experience?…”