The mystery of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac is contrasted with the clarity of Euryclea's recognition of Odysseus's (*) scar, in the oft-anthologized first chapter of a collection of essays about this concept.
A book titled for this concept presents a detailed stylistic analysis of the scene from To the Lighthouse in which Mrs. Ramsay measures a stocking against her son's leg. In Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye describes "high" and "low" modes of literature named after this concept. In Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, Rene Girard first propounded his theory all desire springs out of this concept. The mystery of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac is contrasted with the clarity of Euryclea's recognition of Odysseus's (*) scar, in the oft-anthologized first chapter of a collection of essays about this concept. In The Republic, Plato contrasts this concept with diegesis, meaning narration. In The Decay of Lying, Oscar Wilde opposes this idea by declaring that "Life imitates Art far more than Art Imitates Life." For 10 points, name this literary concept investigated by Erich Auerbach, which Aristotle's Poetics describes as imitation of the natural world.
A book titled for this concept presents a detailed stylistic analysis of the scene from To the Lighthouse in which Mrs. Ramsay measures a stocking against her son's leg.
mimesis [or word forms, such as mimetic; prompt on imitation or word forms until mentioned] 