Mimesis in contemporary theory : an interdisciplinary approach. Volume 2, Mimesis, semiosis and power.
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultura ludens : imitation and play in Western culture ; 1:2 Cultura ludens ; 1:2. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125452 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027277855 9027277850 9781556191503 1556191502 9027242259 9789027242259 |