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 Fiction.

1. 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 Semiotic -- A 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.