A Perspective of Mimetic Literary Criticism in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Abstract

The research represents and reflects the life of human being in following, encouraging and fighting for how to reach the cultural identity in terms of rational and times for personal history, adventures, experience and sacrifice of life. Colored with the problems of social value, traditional norms, and dimensions of superiority-inferiority, the two narratives try to reveal the forms of paradoxical analyses and paradigm of structure of human life which is elaborated in the structures of plot in which imply on the cultural studies in a society to find out the self-identity. The analyses of the research are in the approach of mimetic criticism discussed as the reaction to the forms of imitation, reflection and representation and its colors, meanwhile the data analyzed in terms of qualitative method with the techniques of interpretative qualitative in the steps of data comprehensively read, interpretation of meaning and critical analyses.

Keywords: mimetic, imitation, reflection, representation

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/86-04

Publication date: February 28^th 2022