Introduction

Dean MacCannell, Juliet Flower MacCannell

3-4

The semiotics of fatal attraction

preliminary remarks

Juliet Flower MacCannell

5-11

The fatal attraction of nostalgia

Lucia Villela-Minnerly

13-26

The letter against the phallus

analysis of the masculine position in fatal attraction

Danielle Bergeron

27-33

The letter and the "thing" in femininity

analysis of the feminine position in fatal attraction

Lucie Cantin

35-41

The punishing other

fatal attraction

Anne Friedberg

43-51

Alex

Laurence A. Rickels

53-61

Death and sublimation

the final scene of city lights

Slavoj Žižek

63-72

Toward a specification of theatre discourse

Fernando de Toro

73-89

Subjectification and mimesis

colonizing history

Mira Kamdar

91-100

On metaphors in a theory of truth

Anthony Wall

101-112

Heidegger's being and time

a reading for readers

Marlies Kronegger

113-116