The Triangle of Representation

Christopher Prendergast

Published by Columbia University Press 2000

The Triangle of Representation

Christopher Prendergast

https://doi.org/10.7312/pren12090

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About this book

One of our best-known cultural critics examines the concept of representation and its many and varied forms in literature and art.

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

Lawrence Schehr:
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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
1. The Triangle of Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Blurred Identities: Representing Modern Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Foundations and Beginnings: Raymond Williams and the Grounds of Cultural Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. Circulating Representations: New Historicism and the Poetics of Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
5. Representing (Forgetting) the Past: Paul de Man, Fascism, and Deconstruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
6.Representing Other Cultures: Edward Said Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
7. Representation or Embodiment? Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Correspondances Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
8. God’s Secret: Reflections on Realism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
9. Visuality and Narrative:The Moment of History Painting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
10. Literature, Painting, Metaphor: Matisse/Proust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
11. English Proust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 123

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Published: September 26, 2000
ISBN: 9780231506090