A Touch More Rare : Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation / ed. by Nina Levine, David Lee Miller.
Anderson, Judith H., contributor.; Barkan, Leonard, contributor.; Berger, Harry, contributor.; Cartelli, Thomas, contributor.; Collins, Bradford R., contributor.; Dolven, Jeff, contributor.; Eggert, Katherine, contributor.; Erickson, Peter, contributor.; Farness, Jay, contributor.; Frank, Jill, contributor.; Gimelli Martin, Catherine, contributor.; Greenburg, Bradley, contributor.; Greene, Roland, contributor.; Gross, Kenneth, contributor.; Grossman, Marshall, contributor.; Hammill, Graham, contributor.; Leach, Eleanor, contributor.; Lee Miller, David, contributor.; Levine, Nina, contributor.; Levine, Nina, editor.; Miller, David Lee, editor.; Oram, William A., contributor.; Silberman, Lauren, contributor.; Wofford, Susanne L., contributor.
2009
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A Touch More Rare : Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation / ed. by Nina Levine, David Lee Miller.
ISBN
9780823237296
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823237296
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (336 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823237296 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
801/.95092
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.
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Added Author
Anderson, Judith H., contributor.
Barkan, Leonard, contributor.
Berger, Harry, contributor.
Cartelli, Thomas, contributor.
Collins, Bradford R., contributor.
Dolven, Jeff, contributor.
Eggert, Katherine, contributor.
Erickson, Peter, contributor.
Farness, Jay, contributor.
Frank, Jill, contributor.
Gimelli Martin, Catherine, contributor.
Greenburg, Bradley, contributor.
Greene, Roland, contributor.
Gross, Kenneth, contributor.
Grossman, Marshall, contributor.
Hammill, Graham, contributor.
Leach, Eleanor, contributor.
Lee Miller, David, contributor.
Levine, Nina, contributor.
Levine, Nina, editor.
Miller, David Lee, editor.
Oram, William A., contributor.
Silberman, Lauren, contributor.
Wofford, Susanne L., contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Drama
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
Part Two. Harry's Bower of Bliss
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
Part Three. Critical and Cultural Theory
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
Part Four. Visual Arts
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
Part Five. Reading Plato
Chapter 15. Platonic Irony in Berger
Chapter 16. Situating Harry's Plato
Part Six. Intellectual Community
Chapter 17. The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland
Chapter 18. How Harry Taught
Chapter 19. Harry Berger's Intellectual Community
The Last Word ''All Your Writers Do Consent That Ipse Is He''
Chapter 20. Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave
Notes
Harry Berger,Jr.: Bio-bibliography
Contributors
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