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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach: Volume 2: Mimesis, semiosis and power

By Ronald Bogue

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1991
ISBN
9027242259, 9789027242259
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35533607 bytes)
Series
Cultura Ludens
Pages
218\222
Time added
2015-02-01 19:20:01

Description

The essays collected in this volume focus on the interrelated themes of mimesis, semiosis and power, each study exploring some facet of the problem of representation and its relation to strategies of power in the use of verbal and visual signs. Topics discussed include mimesis and power in Plato's Ion, rhetoric and erotics in Petrarch's thought; the limits of visual and verbal representation in Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation; binary thought and Peirce's triadic semiotics; the cinematic semiotics of Gilles Deleuze; fascist iconography in the paintings of Anselm Kiefer; oppositional strategies in postmodern fiction; visual and verbal representations of the body in mass culture; and the semiotics of violence in postmodern popular culture.

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