Triangle of Representation

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

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 Helene 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-09-26
Mått:228 x 167 x 14 mm
Vikt:364 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:123
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231120913

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Konstteori inom Kultur
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Christopher Prendergast is professor of French literature at Cambridge University and a fellow of the British Academy. His six previous books include The Order of Mimesis and Writing the City: Paris and the Nineteenth Century.

Recensioner i media

Christopher Pendergast has produced an excellent set of studies collected in the work at hand... the volume is to be recommended for its detailed, nuanced, historical analyses of the concept of representation. -- Lawrence Schehr SubStance

Innehållsförteckning

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