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Mimesis in a cognitive perspective : Mallarmé, Flaubert, and Eminescu / Nicolae Babuts.
Van Pelt Library PQ473.M56 B33 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Babuts, Nicolae.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eminescu, Mihai, 1850-1889.
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
- Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898.
- French poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- French poetry.
- Mimesis in literature.
- Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898--Criticism and interpretation.
- Mallarmé, Stéphane.
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880--Criticism and interpretation.
- Flaubert, Gustave.
- Eminescu, Mihai, 1850-1889--Criticism and interpretation.
- Eminescu, Mihai.
- Memory in literature.
- Romanian poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- Romanian poetry.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 215 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2011]
- Summary:
- Literature explores the human condition, the mystery of the world, life and death, as well as our relations with others, and our desires and dreams. It differs from science in its aims and methods, but Babuts shows, in other respects, literature has much common ground with science. Both aim for an authentic version of truth. To this end, literature employs metaphors, and it does so in a manner similar to that of scientific inquiry. The cognitive view does not imply that there is a one-to-one correlation between the world and text, that meaning belongs to the author, or that literature is equivalent to perception. What it does maintain is that meaning is crucially dependent on mnemonic initiatives and that without memory, the world remains meaningless. Babuts claims that at the interface with the printed page, readers process texts in a manner similar to the way they explain the visible world: in segments or units of meaning, or dynamic patterns. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- An Aristotelian legacy
- Language and perception
- The splitting of the referent and the mnemonic projection
- Memory: faithful or unfaithful?
- Fictional worlds and the matter of belief
- Events in time and the rise of narrative
- The prestige of rumors
- Mallarmé and the mystery of legends
- Flaubert's Herodias and the mimetic impulse
- Eminescu and the romantic transfiguration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781412818674
- 1412818672
- OCLC:
- 699724397
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