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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory : Mimesis in Contemporary Theory - An Interdisciplinary Approach.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- MIMESIS IN CONTEMPORARY THEORY AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH Volume 2: Mimesis, Semiosis and power; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; Plato's lon: Mimesis, Poetry and Power; Notes; Petrarch's Thought; Notes; Stating a Mysterious Figure; Notes; Mimesis, Binary Opposition, and Peirce's Triadic Realism; 1. Consider the sense of symmetry evoked by binary oppositions like; 2. This problematic involving the rhetoric of binary opposition seemsfar removed from Peirce.
- 3. It might be argued at this point that my use of the word purpose tosuggest a principle of coherence amounts to talk about law but that inspite of Peirce's attempt to overcome the symmetrical lock-up of all binaryopposition,4. Peirce's trust in institutional consensus does suggest that he is eagerto contain the question of truth within a notion of Utopian closure.; Notes; Word, Image and Sound: The Non-Representational Semiotics of Gilles Deleuze; 1. In Mille plateaux (1980), ; 2. It would seem from this account that Deleuze would have littleinterest in conventional semiotic analysis.
- 3. For Deleuze, Notes; Portrait of the Artist as Hero: Anselm Kiefer and the Modernist Semiotics of Fascism; 1. The Art of Fascism; 1.1 Fascism's Aesthetic Ground; 1.2 The Theatrical Self: Creating the Fascist Hero; 1.3 The Politics of Personality; 1.4 The Apotheosis of the Fascist Hero: From Ruler to Divinity; 1.5 The Aggression of Nostalgia; 2. Kiefer and the Fascist Theater; 2.1 Art's Sovereign Imperative; 2.2 The Art of Nostalgia; 2.3 Art as Divine; 2.4 Portrait of the Artist as Hero; 2.5 The Divine Artist; 2.6 The Warrior Artist; 3. The Critical Complicity; Notes.
- Postmodernism Beyond Self-Reflection: Radical Mimesis in Recent Fiction1. Innovative Fiction and the Mimetic Metaphor; 2. From Textual Ontology to Narrative Ideology; 3. Narrative Articulation and Fictional Mastery; Notes; Mixed Signals in the Body Languages of Sexual, Commercial, and Extraterrestrial Discourse; Sex and Discourse; Who Gets to Talk about Sex?; 1980s An-aesthetics: Simulated Fantasy and Fantasia of Simulacra; As Real As It Gets; Enjoying the Guilt: Safe Sex, Smokeless Sex; From Scandal to Routine; The Body is the Message; Notes.
- Popular Culture/Popular Violence: Postmodernism and the Mailing of SemioticA Semiotically Inadmissible Prologue; The Meditation on Plagiarism; Where Culture Has Gone; An Apparent Argument for Infinite Semiosis; A Sentimental Objection to the Apparent Argument for Infinite Semiosis; Gone to the Mall; A Postmodern Interrogation; The Natural History of Sign Production; Prosthetic Epilogue; Notes; List of Contributors; Index.