â April 29, 2010. The normal adult pulse rate ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute (bpm). The heart beats faster during and after exercise, but nervousness can also speed it up. If your pulse rate is elevated whenever you see your doctor for instance, anxiety could be to blame.
mimesis - the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature imitation - the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations 2.
One of the best-known modern studies of mimesis, understood as a form of realism in literature, is Erich Auerbach 's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, which opens with a famous comparison between the way the world is represented in Homer 's Odyssey and the way it appears in the Bible.