MIMESIS IN CONTEMPORARY THEORY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH Volume I: The Literary and Philosophical Debate -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- NOTES -- PART I. THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE -- THE MIMETIC BIAS IN MODERN ANGLO-AMERICAN CRITICISM -- NOTES -- SUBVERSIVE MIMESIS: THEODOR W. ADORNO AND THE MODERN IMPASSE OF CRITIQUE -- NOTES -- MIMESIS AND CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THEORY -- NOTES -- PART II. MODEL AND COPY (1): THE INTERRELATION OF LITERATURE AND OTHER MODES OF DISCOURSE -- SPENSER'S ARCADIA: THE INTERRELATION OF FICTION AND HISTORY -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- NOTES -- SIMULATION AND IMAGINATION: MIMESIS AS PLAY -- 1. Simulation, -- 2. The definition of simulation given ÄT the beginning of the previoussection has intentionally been formulated in a reticent way. -- 3. As far as the representation character of play is concerned, -- 4. In our presentation of William Stern's analysis of phantasy (imagination), -- 5. The similarity of play and imagination extends to their internal structure . -- 6. The complex character of imagining or phantasying is linked withcreativity, -- NOTES -- IDOLOLOGY: THE MODEL IN ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND CRITICAL THEORY -- Introduction -- Imitations and Copies -- Hidden Variables in Artistic Representation -- A Short History of the Disappearance of the Model in Artistic Representation -- Idols and Martyrs -- NOTES -- PART III. MODEL AND COPY (2): THE REFRACTION OF TEXTS -- FOLLOWING THE CLASSICS: LAYERS OF STYLISTIC MIMESIS -- I -- II -- III -- NOTES -- ON THE REFRACTION OF TEXTS -- I -- II -- III -- MIMESIS, MEDIATION AND COUNTERFEIT -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- NOTES -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF NAMES.