Eagleton's definition of literature involves a text that is written in a language that sounds different from the reader's one: "If everyone used phrases like 'unravished bride of quietness' in ordinary pub conversation, this kind of language might cease to be poetic" (5). ... Plato discusses his theory of mimesis in his "Allegory of the Cave" in Book VII of The Republic. ...

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