(Re)presenting Mimesis – sisemiM gnitneserp(eR)

repr. New York: Fordham University Press, 1980) xi-xii. 19. Boyd is voicing an opinion similar to that of Plato who views art as deception and maintains that there is no real reality. Also, like Plato, Aristotle's entelechial theory sees art as a pursuit of a universal truth of reality. Boyd's presumption that poetry conveys truth is similar to Lukács who, although recognising the power a text has to 'expose' reality, he nonetheless sees fiction as something which "mirrors, in microcosmic form, the complex totality of society itself." George Lukács, "The Evolution of Modern Drama" (1909) qtd in Terry Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism (London: Methuen, 1976) 20. For further insights see: M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953); J.D. Lyons and Stephen J. Nichols, eds, Mimesis: From Mirror to Method: Augustine to Descartes (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1982); and Mary Jo Muratore, Mimesis and Metatextuality in the French Neo-Classical Text (Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1994) who foreground's the text's mimesis of its own construction. 20. Boyd vii. 21. Body 275. 22. John D. Lyons and Stephen J. Nichols eds, Mimesis: From Mirror to Method (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1982) 3. 23. See Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage, 1973) 209. 24. Lanser and Radner 413. 25. They claim that since all women come second to men they all experience the same reality of a masculinist society. Although Lanser and Radner do not give specific examples I imagine they would suggest a woman doing the same job as a man but receiving a smaller stipend would constitute coming second. 26. Sara Mills, Feminist Readings: Feminists Reading, eds Sara Mills, Lynne Pearce, Sue Spaull and Elaine Millard (Toronto and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989) 55. 27. Although it may be possible to say most women experience these conditions one cannot, like Mills, make a sweeping generalization for all women. 28. George Landow, David J. Bolter, Stuart Moulthrop and Mark Amerika are some of the many pro-hypermedia theorists who espouse optimistic praise for this 'new' environment where "instead of being held hostage by the page metaphor and self limiting texture on a landscape with distinct borders..." everyone has the possibility to make stories. Of course this does not take into account the poor or uneducated who are not encouraged to learn the required skills or simply do not have access, therefore, relegating these possibilities to a distinctly

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