BiblioFiles #49: Mimesis and the Art of Teaching Literature

In this week's episode of BiblioFiles, the CenterForLit gang focuses their conversation on a term that comes up quite a bit in literary criticism: mimesis. What is mimesis? Should it influence the way we read? Is it possible or desirable to teach literature mimetically? 

Referenced Works:

– The Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney

– Mimesis by Erich Auerbach

– "Advice to Youth" and Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses by Mark Twain

– Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Radio Read Along Podcast)

– Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

– Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

–  The Illiad of Homer

– Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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