- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Sonnet for Harry on the Occasion of His Celebration in the year 2006 In Columbia S. Carolina
- Introduction
-
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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
Chapter 15 Platonic Irony in Berger -
Chapter 16 Situating Harry's Plato -
Chapter 17 The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland -
Chapter 18 How Harry Taught -
Chapter 19 Harry Berger's Intellectual Community -
Chapter 20 Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave - Bio-bibliography
- Contributors
- Select Publications Index
- Index
The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger
The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger
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- (p.165) Chapter 12 The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger
- Source:
- A Touch More Rare
- Author(s):
Nina Levine
David Lee Miller
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
The deeper level linking of Walcott and Berger through the motif of the prodigal and the reverberations of the various meanings of prodigality, the connection is also a leap — a leap of imagination, a leap of faith. The late-blooming emergence of Harry's art criticism is prefigured by the series of cover illustrations beginning with the Vermeer and Uccello paintings that adorn the companion collections, Second World and Green World and Revisionary Play. The independence of Berger's art criticism is made possible by the break with the signature concept “second world” — announced in the 1965 essay on “The Renaissance Imagination” and repeated in Second World and GreenWorld — as the philosophical framework that had previously directed his thinking.
Keywords: Derek Walcott, Harry Berger, prodigality, art criticism, second world
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Sonnet for Harry on the Occasion of His Celebration in the year 2006 In Columbia S. Carolina
- Introduction
-
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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
Chapter 15 Platonic Irony in Berger -
Chapter 16 Situating Harry's Plato -
Chapter 17 The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland -
Chapter 18 How Harry Taught -
Chapter 19 Harry Berger's Intellectual Community -
Chapter 20 Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave - Bio-bibliography
- Contributors
- Select Publications Index
- Index