Jean-Marie Schaeffer is the director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and is the author of several books in French. Dorrit Cohn, professor emerita of German and comparative literature at Harvard University, is the author of several books, including The Distinction of Fiction, and is the translator of Gérard Genette's Essays in Aesthetics (Nebraska 2005).

• Introduction      000Chapter 1. Who Is Afraid of Imitation?    000Chapter 2. Mimesis: To Imitate, to Feign, to Represent, and to Know     000Chapter 3. Fiction      000Chapter 4. Some Fictional Devices   000Conclusion  000Notes 000Bibliography      000Index 000

Jean-Marie Schaeffer is the director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and is the author of several books in French. Dorrit Cohn, professor emerita of German and comparative literature at Harvard University, is the author of several books, including The Distinction of Fiction, and is the translator of Gérard Genette's Essays in Aesthetics (Nebraska 2005).

• Introduction      000Chapter 1. Who Is Afraid of Imitation?    000Chapter 2. Mimesis: To Imitate, to Feign, to Represent, and to Know     000Chapter 3. Fiction      000Chapter 4. Some Fictional Devices   000Conclusion  000Notes 000Bibliography      000Index 000

Jean-Marie Schaeffer is the director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and is the author of several books in French. Dorrit Cohn, professor emerita of German and comparative literature at Harvard University, is the author of several books, including The Distinction of Fiction, and is the translator of Gérard Genette's Essays in Aesthetics (Nebraska 2005).

• Introduction      000Chapter 1. Who Is Afraid of Imitation?    000Chapter 2. Mimesis: To Imitate, to Feign, to Represent, and to Know     000Chapter 3. Fiction      000Chapter 4. Some Fictional Devices   000Conclusion  000Notes 000Bibliography      000Index 000