Mimesis - advanced search - Results for Mimesis - Advanced Search. Mimesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mimesis. In ancient Greece, mimesis was an idea that governed the creation of works of art, in particular, with correspondence to the physical world understood as a model for beauty, truth, and the good.
Plato contrasted mimesis, or imitation, with diegesis, or narrative. After Plato, the meaning of mimesis eventually shifted toward a specifically literary function in ancient Greek society, and its use has changed and been reinterpreted many times since then. The Frankfurt school critical theorist T. W.