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Chapter Objectives1.Emphasizes correspondence of a text to reality; |
2.Can be traced to the aesthetic theories of Plato and Aristotle, who both assumed correspondence as a proper criterion but disagreed about the relationship between form and content; |
3.Most modern mimetic theories based upon an empirical concept of reality (the world immediately apparent to our primary senses). |
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