Terry Prewitt

This work explores the moral drama and religious fundamentalism represented by the bombing, by four young people, of the Pensacola abortion clinics in 1984. Their religiously motivated political action is identified with Gideon, the slayer of those who sacrificed infants to Baal.

This is the 12th volume of Annual Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America. Contents: I. Language, Geometry and Logic; II. Semiotic Relevance of the Liberal Arts; III. Semiotics of Art and Poetry; IV. Semiotics and Critical Theory; V. Semiotic Analysis of Theater and Literature; VI. Learning and Media Studies; VII. Media Wars; VIII. The Sign and Its Others; IX. Articulating Voices; X. Empirical Semiotics; XI. Peirce; XII. Developments of Peirce's Semeiotic. Contributors: John Deely, Nathan Houser, Terry J. Prewitt, Shea Zellweger, Benedict Ashley, Richard Lanigan, David Lidov, Lajos Elkan, Tracey D. Hagan, Masako Hiraga, Thomas F. Broden, Jianming Gong, R. Lane Dauffmann, Mikle Ledgerwood, Scott Simpkins, Katherine Stephenson, Jean Alter, Erika Freiberger, John E. Miller, Monica Rector, Dali Tan, Sandra E. Moriarty, Shay Sayre, Norma Procopiow, Susan Derwin, Wolf Kittler, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Laurence A. Rickels, Elisabeth Weber, Sigrid Berka, Thomas W. Kniesche, Myrdene Anderson, Angela Della Volpe, Michael R. Molino, Phyllis Passariello, Skif Peterson, Charls Pearson, Ralph Pearson, Ralph Powell, Mark Bandas, Robert S. Corrington, Edward S. Petry Jr., W. John Coletta, Julio Jeha, James Jakob Liszka, William Pencak and John K. Sheriff. Co-published with the Semiotic Society of America.