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3 June 2023

  • curprev 06:2006:20, 3 June 2023β€Ž Bacchus talk contribsβ€Ž 2,291 bytes +2,291β€Ž Created page with "'''Anti-mimesis''' is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in his 1889 essay ''The Decay of Lying'' that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay, written as a latonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life..."
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