Mimesis (The New Critical Idiom)

Potolsky's book is an *exceedingly* clear and engaging introduction to mimesis. If you want to understand the relevance of Plato's theory of mimesis for (say) Baudrillard and Deleuze (as well as mimesis in Aristotle, Girard, Freud, and Lacan, etc.) then this is the book for you. Highly recommended.