Pascal's allegory of persuasion / Paul de Man -- Structure of allegorical desire / Joel Fineman -- Deceit and digestion in the belly of hell / Robert M. Durling -- Representing representation: on the central group in Courbet's Studio / Michael Fried -- Possum in the cave / Hugh Kenner -- Representation and its discontents / Leo Bersani -- Politics of representation / Michael Holquist -- English Institute, 1979-80 -- Program -- Sponsoring institutions and registrants, 1979-80.