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painting became the representation of things. See his chapter
VIII on “Imitation and Creation.”
There was, of course, the same development towards
representation and direct lineal narrative in poetry and prose, as
we shall see. What is essential for understanding this process,
however, is that mimesis in Plato’s (not Aristotle’s) sense is
the necessary effect of separating out the visual mode from
the ordinary enmeshment with the audile-tactile interplay of
senses. It is this process, brought about by the experience of
phonetic literacy, that hoicks societies of the world of “sacred”
or cosmic space and time into the detribalized or “profane”
space and time of civilized and pragmatic man. Such is the
theme of The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by
Mircea Eliade.