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  • For many years, mankind has been in heated battle with a horde of monsters called Mimetic Beasts.

    Mania News Feed Sean Connolly 2009

  • See also, for some reflections by an anthropologist on resemblances between cultures, Simon Harrison, Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Mimetic fiction is to strange fiction as instrumental music is to any music with lyrics — choral/a capella or with a whole lot of instruments backing the vocals.

    On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction Hal Duncan 2009

  • See also, for some reflections by an anthropologist on resemblances between cultures, Simon Harrison, Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Mimetic fiction is to strange fiction as instrumental music is to any music with lyrics — choral/a capella or with a whole lot of instruments backing the vocals.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Mimetic Milieu: The reader could be said to have an experiental milieu, constructed from their life rather than fiction.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Mimetic Milieu: The reader could be said to have an experiental milieu, constructed from their life rather than fiction.

    Notes on Worldscape Hal Duncan 2009

  • In this way, by choosing what Halo includes and excludes in its ‘simulation’, Halo 2 could certainly be considered also Mimetic, and this seemingly contradictory state will be explored.

    Project Update Ben Abraham 2008

  • In this way, by choosing what Halo includes and excludes in its ‘simulation’, Halo 2 could certainly be considered also Mimetic, and this seemingly contradictory state will be explored.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Ben Abraham 2008

  • In an essay on Gerald Graff, Sukenick makes this wonderfully efficient statement: "Mimetic fiction depends on the suspension of disbelief; nonmimetic fiction does not."

    "Mimetic Fiction" 2009

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