The Triangle of Representation
Christopher Prendergast(Author)
Columbia University Press
Published on 5. September 2000
Book
Hardback
123 pages
978-0-231-12090-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 H l ne 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.
Reviews / Votes
"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, SubStanceMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-12090-6 (9780231120906)
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Person
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.
Content
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