A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation

384 Pages·2009·4.089 MB·English

by  Nina Levine, David Lee Miller

A Touch More Rare
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A Touch More Rare
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Harry Berger, Jr., and the
Arts of Interpretation
Edited by
Nina Levine and David Lee Miller
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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
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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
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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
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