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