Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant by Tom Huhn, Tom Huhn

Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant

Literature & Philosophy (Hardcover)

Tom Huhn, Tom Huhn

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This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and ...

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