A touch more rare : Harry Berger, Jr., and the arts of interpretation / edited by Nina Levine and David Lee Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levine, Nina S., 1950-

Miller, David Lee, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berger, Harry--Criticism and interpretation.

Berger, Harry.

Critics--United States.

Critics.

Scholars--United States.

Scholars.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

PDF

EPUB

Summary:

Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very broad his interests are, moving from Shakespeare to baroque painting, to Plato, to theories of early culture.In this volume a distinguished group of scholars gathers to celebrate the work of Harry Berger, Jr. To "celebrate," in Berger's words, is "to visit something either in great numbers or else frequently-to go away and come back, go away and come back, go away and come back. Celebrating is what you do the second or third time around, but not the first. To celebrate is to revisit. To revisit is to revise. Celebration is the eureka of revision." Not only former students but distinguished colleagues and scholars come together in these pages to discover Berger's eurekas-to revisit the rigor and originality of his criticism, and occasionally to revise its conclusions, all through the joy of strenuous engagement. Nineteen essays on Berger's Shakespeare, his Spenser, his Plato, and his Rembrandt, on his theories of interpretation and cultural change and on the ethos of his critical and pedagogical styles, open new approaches to the astonishing ongoing body of work authored by Berger. An introduction by the editors and an afterword by Berger himself place this festival of interpretation in the context of Berger's intellectual development and the reception of his work from the mid-twentieth century into the first decade of the twenty-first.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Enlisting in Harry Berger’s Imaginary Forces

Chapter 2. Harry Berger and Self-Hatred

Chapter 3. Complicity and Catharsis: The Immature Criticism of Harry Berger

Chapter 4. Sack Drama

Chapter 5. Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production: Michael Radford’s Film Version of The Merchant of Venice

Chapter 6. Acrasian Fantasies: Outsides, Insides, Upsides, Downsides in the Bower of Bliss

Chapter 7. Harry Berger’s Genius: Porting Pleasure in the Bower of Bliss

Chapter 8. Taking Another Peek

Chapter 9. Close Reading Transformed: The New Criticism and the World

Chapter 10. Thinking Culture, and Beyond

Chapter 11. Bergerama: New Critical and Poststructural Theory in the Work of Harry Berger, Jr

Chapter 12. The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger

Chapter 13. Harry Berger’s Sprezzatura and the Poses of Cicero’s de Oratore

Chapter 14. What Art Historians Can Learn from Harry

Chapter 15. Platonic Irony in Berger

Chapter 16. Situating Harry’s Plato

Chapter 17. The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland

Chapter 18. How Harry Taught

Chapter 19. Harry Berger’s Intellectual Community

Chapter 20. Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave

Notes

Harry Berger,Jr.: Bio-bibliography

Contributors

Select Publications Index

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612698996

9780823241071

0823241076

9781282698994

1282698990

9780823247059

0823247058

9780823237296

082323729X

9780823230327

0823230325

OCLC:

647876405