Acknowledgements 'Present, the Scene of ... Selves, the Occasion of ... Ruses': Fred Orton's Art History  Steve Edwards Publications by Fred Orton 1 Beginning ... with Intention 2 Painting Out of Time  Symbol and Allegory  Modernist Painting  On the Motif  Sensations  A Dabbing Sensation  As If. As If.  Paul de Man, 'The Rhetoric of Temporality'  Slack Links and Gaps  Allegory 3 Action, Revolution and Painting (Resumed)  I  II  III  IV 4 Ideology: Reading Paul de Man Reading Marx and Engels  'The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism' (1956)  'Georg Lukacs's "Theory of the Novel" ' (1966)  'The Contemporary Criticism of Romanticism' (1967)  'Roland Barthes and the Limits of Structuralism' (1972)  'Metaphor (Second Discourse)' (1973)  'The Resistance to Theory' (1982)  Excursus: Aberration  'The Resistance to Theory' (Continued)  Coda: Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ideology  For the End ... Bibliography Index

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