The triangle of representation / Christopher Prendergast.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prendergast, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 198 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?).The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical, historical, and aesthetic questions, and offers subtle readings of such cultural critics as Raymond Williams, Paul de Man, Edward Said, Walter Benjamin, and Hélène Cixous, in addition to penetrating investigations of visual artists like Gros, Ingres, and Matisse and significant insights into Proust and the onus of translating him. Above all, Prendergast's work is a striking display of how a firm grounding in theory is essential for the exploration of art and literature.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231506090

0231506090

OCLC:

51574680