Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Plato's Ion: Mimesis, Poetry and Power (by Spariosu, Mihai); 3. Petrarch's Thought (by Mazzotta, Giuseppe); 4. Stating a Mysterious Figure (by Marin, Louis); 5. Mimesis, Binary Opposition, and Peirce's Triadic Realism (by King, Terrance); 6. Word, Image and Sound: The Non-Representational Semiotics of Gilles Deleuze (by Bogue, Ronald); 7. Portrait of the Artist as Hero: Anselm Kiefer and the Modernist Semiotics of Fascism (by Brooks, Linda M.); 8. Postmodernism Beyond Self-Reflection: Radical Mimesis in Recent Fiction (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 9. Mixed Signals in the Body Languages of Sexual, Commercial, and Extraterrestrial Discourse (by Black, Joel); 10. Popular Culture/Popular Violence: Postmodernism and the Malling of Semiotics (by Herron, Jerry); 11. List of Contributors; 12. Index