In this book a distinguished group of scholars gathers to celebrate the work of Harry Berger, Jr., one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications has...
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In this book a distinguished group of scholars gathers to celebrate the work of Harry Berger, Jr., one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications has shown how very broad his interests are, moving from Shakespeare to Baroque painting, to Plato, to theories of early culture. Nineteen essays on BergerGs 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. Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: DRAMA -- 1. Enlisting in Harry Berger's Imaginary Forces -- 2. Harry Berger and Self-Hatred -- 3. Complicity and Catharsis: The Immature Criticism of Harry Berger -- 4. Sack Drama -- 5. Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production: Michael Radford's Film Version of The Merchant of Venice -- Part Two: HARRY'S BOWER OF BLISS -- 6. Acrasian Fantasies: Outsides, Insides, Upsides, Downsides in the Bower of Bliss -- 7. Harry Berger's Genius: Porting Pleasure in the Bower of Bliss -- 8. Taking Another Peek -- Part Three: CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY -- 9. Close Reading Transformed: The New Criticism and the World -- 10. Thinking Culture, and Beyond -- 11. Bergerama: New Critical and Poststructural Theory in the Work of Harry Berger, Jr. -- Part Four: VISUAL ARTS -- 12. The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger -- 13. Harry Berger's Sprezzatura and the Poses of Cicero's de Oratore -- 14. What Art Historians Can Learn from Harry -- Part Five: READING PLATO -- 15. Platonic Irony in Berger -- 16. Situating Harry's Plato -- Part Six: INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY -- 17. The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland -- 18. How Harry Taught -- 19. Harry Berger's Intellectual Community -- THE LAST WORD: "ALL YOUR WRITERS DO CONSENT THAT IPSE IS HE -- 20. Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave -- Notes -- Bio-bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Select Publications Index -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Photo Album.
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Includes bibliographical references (281-347) and indexes
""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Drama""; ""Enlisting in Harry Berger�s Imaginary Forces""; ""Harry Berger and Self-Hatred""; ""Complicity and Catharsis: The Immature Criticism of Harry Berger""; ""Sack Drama""; ""Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production: Michael Radford�s Film Version of The Merchant of Venice""; ""Harry�s Bower of Bliss""; ""Acrasian Fantasies: Outsides, Insides, Upsides, Downsides in the Bower of Bliss""; ""Harry Berger�s Genius: Porting Pleasure in the Bower of Bliss""; ""Taking Another Peek""; ""Critical and Cultural Theory""
""Close Reading Transformed: The New Criticism and the World""""Thinking Culture, and Beyond""; ""Bergerama: New Critical and Poststructural Theory in the Work of Harry Berger, Jr.""; ""Visual Arts""; ""The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger""; ""Harry Berger�s Sprezzatura and the Poses of Cicero�s de Oratore""; ""What Art Historians Can Learn from Harry""; ""Reading Plato""; ""Platonic Irony in Berger""; ""Situating Harry�s Plato""; ""Intellectual Community""; ""The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland""; ""How Harry Taught""
""Harry Berger�s Intellectual Community""""��All Your Writers Do Consent That Ipse Is He��""; ""Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave""; ""Bio-bibliography""; ""Index""