The Triangle of Representation / / Christopher Prendergast.

Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a politi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (123 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Triangle of Representation
  • 2. Blurred Identities: Representing Modern Life
  • 3. Foundations and Beginnings: Raymond Williams and the Grounds of Cultural Theory
  • 4. Circulating Representations: New Historicism and the Poetics of Culture
  • 5. Representing (Forgetting) the Past: Paul de Man, Fascism, and Deconstruction
  • 6.Representing Other Cultures: Edward Said
  • 7. Representation or Embodiment? Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Correspondances
  • 8. God's Secret: Reflections on Realism
  • 9. Visuality and Narrative:The Moment of History Painting
  • 10. Literature, Painting, Metaphor: Matisse/Proust
  • 11. English Proust
  • Notes
  • Index