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HARSHAV FESTSCHRIFT ISSUE 1 |
Romance Languages and Literatures, Chicago
ABSTRACT
This article begins with a discussion of the views on mimesis defended in
recent works by Lubomír Dole
el, Dorrit Cohn, and Jean-Marie
Schaeffer. It then argues that literary fiction typically represents human
beings in their relationship with norms and values. But since norms and values
cannot be uniformly reduced to a set of observable facts, they cannot be
copied directly but only highlighted indirectly, through examples of human
action. These examples, however, do not necessarily represent the norm or the
value they are meant to typify. It follows that representation of norms and
values cannot be reduced to imitation and that mere observation of nature
cannot suffice for creating and understanding fiction. The poet and the reader
must know how to distance themselves from the world of "is," the
empirical realm, in order to explore its dependence on the world of
"ought," the realm of norms, and the world of
"praise," the realm of values.
This article has been cited by other articles:
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  J. Landy The Paradox of Perfection Poetics Today, March 1, 2005; 26(1): 161 - 168. [PDF]
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E. Andringa The Interface between Fiction and Life: Patterns of Identification in Reading Autobiographies Poetics Today, June 1, 2004; 25(2): 205 - 240. [Abstract] [PDF]
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M. Schreier "Please Help Me; All I Want to Know Is: Is It Real or Not?": How Recipients View the Reality Status of The Blair Witch Project Poetics Today, June 1, 2004; 25(2): 305 - 334. [Abstract] [PDF]
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