title: “µίµήσις – imitation – mimesys”: Concept and Term in the Age of Modern
abstract: Using the concept “mimesis” every historical period added something new to it, reinterpreted it until it paradoxically departed from its original semantic variant associated with the names of Plato and Aristotle. It is stated that the European aesthetics of the Modern period was enriched rather by “modernized” than authentic understanding of this concept. The so-called Roman classicism becomes the first stage of the receptive understanding of Plato and Aristotle’s concept. Then the this classici
journal: Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva