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Making Trifles of Terrors
Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 1997
442 kr
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This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, three have never before been published; the essays' appearance in a single volume makes available for the first time …
Absence of Grace
Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books
Av Harry Berger
Inbunden, 2000
1567 kr
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The Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author …
Absence of Grace
Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 2000
379 kr
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The Absence of Grace is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in two sixteenth-century books, Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo (1558). The interpretive method is a form of close reading the author …
Situated Utterances
Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations
Av Harry Berger
Inbunden, 2005
1518 kr
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Berger describes himself as "a reconstructed old New Critic," and hispublications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of theways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance.The thirteen chapters of the present book illustrate the range of his …
Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief
Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Other Dutch Group Portraits
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 2006
555 kr
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A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of …
Caterpillage
Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting
Av Harry Berger
Inbunden, 2011
535 kr
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Caterpillage is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting. It develops an interpretive approach based on the author's previous studies of portraiture, and its goal is to offer its readers a new way to think and talk about the genre of still life.The book begins with a critique of …
Fury in the Words
Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice
Av Harry Berger
Inbunden, 2012
1226 kr
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Shakespeare's two Venetian plays are dominated by the discourse of embarrassment. The Merchant of Venice is a comedy of embarrassment, and Othello is a tragedy of embarrassment. This nomenclature is admittedly anachronistic, because the term "embarrassment" didn't enter the language until the late …
Fury in the Words
Love and Embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 2012
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442 kr
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Shakespeare's two Venetian plays are dominated by the discourse of embarrassment. The Merchant of Venice is a comedy of embarrassment, and Othello is a tragedy of embarrassment. This nomenclature is admittedly anachronistic, because the term "embarrassment" didn't enter the language until the late …
Perils of Uglytown
Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 2015
490 kr
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With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls "structural misanthropology." Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates's self-acknowledged failures. The dialogues, he …
Harrying
Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad
Av Harry Berger
Inbunden, 2015
1226 kr
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Harrying considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad—Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Berger combines close reading with cultural analysis to show how the language characters speak always says more than the speakers mean to say. Shakespeare's speakers …
Harrying
Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 2015
394 kr
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Harrying considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad—Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Berger combines close reading with cultural analysis to show how the language characters speak always says more than the speakers mean to say. Shakespeare's speakers …
Figures of a Changing World
Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture
Av Harry Berger
Inbunden, 2015
953 kr
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Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats metonymy as the basic organizing trope of traditional culture and metaphor as the basic organizing trope …
Resisting Allegory
Interpretive Delirium in Spenser's Faerie Queene
Av Harry Berger, David Lee Miller
Inbunden, 2020
1193 kr
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Spenser is a delirious poet. He can't plough straight. What he builds is shiftier, twistier, than anything dreamed up or put down by M. C. Escher. So begins Resisting Allegory, in which the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual …
Couch City
Socrates Against Simonides
Av Harry Berger, Ward Risvold m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
852 kr
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Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato's kalos kagathos, showing Socrates to be trapped in a double ventriloquism, tethered to his interlocutors' speech …
Fictions of the Pose
Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 2000
785 kr
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The foundational question this book explores is: What happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing—when the observer's attention is redirected so that the primary object the portrait imitates becomes the likeness not of …
Situated Utterances
Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 2005
684 kr
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Berger describes himself as "a reconstructed old New Critic," and hispublications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of theways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance.The thirteen chapters of the present book illustrate the range of his …
Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief
Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Other Dutch Group Portraits
Av Harry Berger
Inbunden, 2006
1217 kr
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A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of …
Perils of Uglytown
Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt
Av Harry Berger
Inbunden, 2015
1359 kr
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With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls "structural misanthropology." Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates's self-acknowledged failures. The dialogues, he …
Figures of a Changing World
Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture
Av Harry Berger
Häftad, 2015
245 kr
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Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction between two familiar rhetorical figures, metonymy and metaphor. The book treats metonymy as the basic organizing trope of traditional culture and metaphor as the basic organizing trope …
