Editorial

Dean MacCannell, Juliet Flower MacCannell

3-4

Semiotics and cultural diversity

entering the 1990s

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

5-26

The pornographic effect

a response

Nancy Armstrong

27-44

"Society doesn't exist"

Renata Salecl

45-52

Ethno-historical discourse

Jean Brébeuf's jesuit relation of 1636

Paul Perron, Gilles Thérien

53-67

"It must be a personating of himself"

misreading and autosemiotization in Timon of Athens

Sid Sondergard

69-88

On the interpellative power of the discourses of Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson

Mark Bracher

89-104

Aldo Palazzeschi's :Riflessi:

toward a notion of a retro-lector

Anthony J. Tamburri

105-124

Poetry as spatial art

"topoemas' by Octavio Paz

Leticia Underwood

125-143

Reading the social text

Scott Simpkins

145-151

Intertextuality and the literature of judaism

Jacob Neusner

153-182