Mimologics

by Gřard Genette and Gérard Genette

Book Overview

Do words-their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns-imitate the world? Mimology says they do. First argued in Plato's Cratylus more than two thousand years ago, mimology has left an important mark in virtually every major art and artistic theory thereafter. Fascinating and many-faceted, mimology is the basis of language sciences and incites occasional hilarity. Its complicated traditions require a sure grip but a light touch. One of the few...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803270445
• ISBN13: 9780803270442
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"