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  • I will also apply semi-filmic analyses, adapting concepts such as Mimesis and Diegesis, along with analyses of such things as the effects of geography, art direction and the Videogame equivalent of camera angles to specific levels and sections of the game.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Ben Abraham 2008

  • I will also apply semi-filmic analyses, adapting concepts such as Mimesis and Diegesis, along with analyses of such things as the effects of geography, art direction and the Videogame equivalent of camera angles to specific levels and sections of the game.

    Project Update Ben Abraham 2008

  • The English Association of The Madras Christian College presents 'Mimesis', a two-day literary programme.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Mimesis: Any narrative may maintain an alethic modality of “could have happened” (or “could be happening” or “could happen”, according to the tense of the narrative).

    Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

  • Mimesis: Any narrative may maintain an alethic modality of “could have happened” (or “could be happening” or “could happen”, according to the tense of the narrative).

    Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Mimesis: Any narrative may maintain an alethic modality of “could have happened” (or “could be happening” or “could happen”, according to the tense of the narrative).

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • I'm pretty certain that most students, as well as most other readers unpracticed in literary criticism, would find the Mimesis passages almost as incomprehensible as the previously quoted passage about "epistemic systems" or as the scholarly papers Lewis-Kraus sat through.

    Literary Study 2009

  • Chris Fleming, René Girard: Violence and Mimesis Cambridge: Polity, 2004, 2–4.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • For comparison, here is the beginning of the second paragraph of Eric Auerbach's Mimesis, one of the greatest works of literary criticism ever written.

    Literary Study 2009

  • Mimesis: Any narrative may maintain an alethic modality of “could have happened” (or “could be happening” or “could happen”, according to the tense of the narrative).

    On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction Hal Duncan 2009

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