CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments		6
Introduction	Cultural Icons David Scott and Keyan G. Tomaselli	7
Chapter 1	The Absent Signifier: The Morphing of Nelson Mandela Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson	25
Chapter 2	The Little Mermaid Finn Hauberg Mortensen	43
Chapter 3	The Eiffel Tower: Cultural Icon, Cultural Interface Stephanie A. Glaser	59
Chapter 4	Edvard Munch's The Scream as Cultural Icon Hans Lund	85
Chapter 5	The Holy Lance as Late Twentieth-centurySubcultural Icon Volker Schier and Corine Schleif	103
Chapter 6	The Semiotics of Cultural Icons: The Example of Britannia David Scott	135
Index		155
About the Contributors		165

 

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