The point of this essay is to investigate the significance of mimesis in Middle Ages literature and paintings. The topics that will be argued here are these; imitating and assimilating function of writing, development of stylization represented by the style of Fujiwara-no-Teika, authenticity and mimetic imagination of forged documents and bogus literary texts, mimesis in realistic painting, revaluation of copying in picture books, contradiction between oral and written languages in storytelling, the function of parody which turns its object to its own use while seemingly imitating it, and so on.
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