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A Touch More Rare This page intentionally left blank R a A Touch More Rare r Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation Edited by Nina Levine and David Lee Miller fordham university press e NewYork 2009 Copyright(cid:1)2009FordhamUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybe reproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedin anyformorbyanymeans—electronic,mechanical, photocopy,recording,oranyother—exceptforbrief quotationsinprintedreviews,withoutthepriorpermission ofthepublisher. FordhamUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthe persistenceoraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-party Internetwebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwill remain,accurateorappropriate. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Atouchmorerare:HarryBerger,Jr.,andtheartsof interpretation/editedbyNinaLevineandDavidLee Miller.—1sted. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8232-3030-3(cloth:alk.paper) 1.Berger,Harry—Criticismandinterpretation. 2.Critics—UnitedStates. 3.Scholars—United States. I.Levine,NinaS.,(date) II.Miller,DavidLee, (date) PN75.B45T68 2009 801(cid:1).95092—dc22 2009006200 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1 Firstedition contents ListofIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 ninalevineanddavidleemiller PartOne drama 1. EnlistinginHarryBerger’sImaginaryForces 13 leonardbarkan 2. HarryBergerandSelf-Hatred 23 kennethgross 3. ComplicityandCatharsis:TheImmatureCriticism ofHarryBerger 31 susannel.wofford 4. SackDrama 45 bradleygreenburg 5. RedistributingComplicitiesinanAgeofDigitalProduction: MichaelRadford’sFilmVersionofTheMerchantofVenice 58 thomascartelli PartTwo harry’sbowerofbliss 6. AcrasianFantasies:Outsides,Insides,Upsides,Downsides intheBowerofBliss 77 judithh.anderson 7. HarryBerger’sGenius:PortingPleasureinthe BowerofBliss 92 katherineeggert 8. TakingAnotherPeek 104 laurensilberman v vi Contents PartThree criticalandculturaltheory 9. CloseReadingTransformed:TheNewCriticism andtheWorld 115 rolandgreene 10. ThinkingCulture,andBeyond 125 grahamhammill 11. Bergerama:NewCriticalandPoststructuralTheory intheWorkofHarryBerger,Jr. 139 catherinegimellimartin PartFour visualarts 12. ThePowerofProdigalityintheWorkofDerekWalcott andHarryBerger 165 petererickson 13. HarryBerger’sSprezzaturaandthePoses ofCicero’sdeOratore 182 eleanorleach 14. WhatArtHistoriansCanLearnfromHarry 197 bradfordr.collins PartFive readingplato 15. PlatonicIronyinBerger 215 jayfarness 16. SituatingHarry’sPlato 227 jillfrank PartSix intellectualcommunity 17. TheSeminalandtheInimitable:AnAdventureinHarryland 237 marshallgrossman 18. HowHarryTaught 255 williama.oram 19. HarryBerger’sIntellectualCommunity 264 jeffdolven thelastword:‘‘allyourwritersdoconsentthat ipseishe’’ 20. Backlooping:LifeinaRevisionaryEnclave 273 harryberger,jr. Contents vii Notes 281 HarryBerger,Jr.:Bio-bibliography 333 ListofContributors 349 SelectPublicationsIndex 353 GeneralIndex 355 PhotoAlbumfollowingpage348 This page intentionally left blank illustrations Plates(followingpage178) 12.1 SecondWorldandGreenWorld(UniversityofCaliforniaPress, 1988) 12.2 RevisionaryPlay(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1988) 12.3 MakingTriflesofTerrors(StanfordUniversityPress,1997) 12.4 FictionsofthePose(StanfordUniversityPress,2000) 12.5 TheAbsenceofGrace(StanfordUniversityPress,2000) 12.6 Manhood,Marriage,andMischief(FordhamUniversity Press,2007) 12.7 Rembrandt,SyndicsoftheDraper’sGuild(1662), Rijksmuseum,Amsterdam 12.8 SituatedUtterances(FordhamUniversityPress,2005) Figures 5.1–5.12 TheMerchantofVenice(2004) 60–79 5.13 ComingtoAmerica(1988) 70 5.14–5.16 TheMerchantofVenice(2004) 70–73 12.1 Vela´zquez,SurrenderofBreda(1635) 177 12.2 ImaginaryAudition(UniversityofCaliforniaPress, 1989) 181 13.1 PortraitofanAgedRepublican 183 13.2 RomanPortrait,unknownsubject,c.latefirst centuryb.c. 184 ix

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