media - a question of representation?
what is being represented in our five works?

the Sims Œsimulation¹?

Richard¹s dismay about his sovereignty ~ power, speech, physical presence, his standing for England (an issue of political representation)

Lévi-Strauss¹s self-conscious reflection back upon himself, the Œintertextuality¹ of TT

Crito - a conversation in a prison cell?

the acute observation in the Pillow Book, the lists, the artifice, and their relation to genres of diary and poetry - hardly representational in a naturalistic sense