1. [n]  the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature
2. [n]  the representation of another person's words in a speech
3. [n]  any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease

Mimesis
Auerbach traces the representation of reality with well-developed readings of major writers in Western literature from antiquity to the 20th century. His analysis of the development of realism in Stendahl, Balzac, Flaubert and Proust is especially worth noting. He ends his book with Virginia Woolf`s To the Lighthouse .

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