caa a22 4500 463200101 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9003-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9003-2 Poiana Peter School of Humanities, The University of Adelaide, Hughes Building, 5005, Adelaide, SA, Australia aut The Order of Mimesis in Saint-John Perse's Vents [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Poiana] The claim by the 20th Century French poet Saint-John Perse that poetry is essentially a metaphysics invites readers and critics to reflect on the origins of both philosophy and poetry. In taking up this question, this paper focuses on the concept of mimesis from which the ancients derived, among other things, the principles of poetic and artistic production. By examining the way mimesis functions in Saint-John Perse's Vents, it aims not only to establish the basis for understanding how the poet's metaphysical claims are realised, but it also throws light on other aspects of his poetic vision, such as his view of cosmic unity, his explicit humanist mission and his much publicised double vocation in politics and poetry. Parallel to this, the paper briefly develops Plato's, Aristotle's and Girard's treatment of mimesis and touches upon Merleau-Ponty's, Bachelard's and Nietzsche's views on poetic expression. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/1(2007-01-01), 33-49 0028-2677 91:1<33 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9003-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9003-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Poiana Peter School of Humanities, The University of Adelaide, Hughes Building, 5005, Adelaide, SA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/1(2007-01-01), 33-49 0028-2677 91:1<33 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer