Mimesis And Its Romantic Reflections - Frederick Burwick

In Romantic Theories Of Art And Literature, The Notion Of Mimesisdefined As Arts Reflection Of The External Worldbecame Introspective And Self-reflexive As Poets And Artists Sought To Represent The Act Of Creativity Itself. Frederick Burwick Seeks To Elucidate This Romantic Aesthetic, First By Offering An Understanding Of Key Romantic Mimetic Concepts And Then By Analyzing Manifestations Of The Mimetic Process In Literary Works Of The Period.burwick Explores The Mimetic Concepts Of Art For Art's Sake, Idem Et Alter, And Palingenesis Of Mind As Art By Drawing On The Theories Of Philo Of Alexandria, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friederich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling, Thomas De Quincey, And Germaine De Stal. Having Established The Philosophical Bases Of These Key Mimetic Concepts, Burwick Analyzes Manifestations Of Mimesis In The Literature Of The Period, Including Ekphrasis In The Work Of Thomas De Quincey, Mirrored Images In The Poems Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge And William Wordsworth, And The Twice-told Tale In The Novels Of Charles Brockden Brown, E.