Chapters in this book

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