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The triangle of representation / Christopher Prendergast.
LIBRA B105.R4 P74 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prendergast, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Representation (Philosophy).
- Culture.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 196 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- One of our best-known cultural critics examines the concept of representation and its many and varied forms in literature and art.
- Contents:
- 1. The Triangle of Representation 1
- 2. Blurred Identities: Representing Modern Life 17
- 3. Foundations and Beginnings: Raymond Williams and the Grounds of Cultural Theory 31
- 4. Circulating Representations: New Historicism and the Poetics of Culture 47
- 5. Representing (Forgetting) the Past: Paul de Man, Fascism, and Deconstruction 63
- 6. Representing Other Cultures: Edward Said 83
- 7. Representation or Embodiment? Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Correspondances 101
- 8. God's Secret: Reflections on Realism 117
- 9. Visuality and Narrative: The Moment of History Painting 133
- 10. Literature, Painting, Metaphor: Matisse/Proust 147
- 11. English Proust 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231120907
- 0231120915
- OCLC:
- 43694224
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