TY - BOOK ID - 77938101 TI - Mimesis in contemporary theory : an interdisciplinary approach. PY - 1991 SN - 1283424541 9786613424549 9027277850 9789027277855 9781556191503 1556191502 1556191502 9027242259 9789027242259 PB - Philadelphia ; Amsterdam : John Benjamins publishing company, DB - UniCat KW - Mimesis in literature. KW - Representation (Literature) KW - Imitation in literature KW - Realism in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77938101 AB - 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 s ER -