- 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
Complicity and Catharsis: the Immature Criticism of Harry Berger
Complicity and Catharsis: the Immature Criticism of Harry Berger
- Chapter:
- (p.31) Chapter 3 Complicity and Catharsis: the Immature Criticism of Harry Berger
- Source:
- A Touch More Rare
- Author(s):
Nina Levine
David Lee Miller
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter tells of the sudden, surprising friendship that springs up instantly between these two great opposites: “How Pantagruel met Panurge, whom he loved all his life” (“lequel il aima toute sa vie”). Berger can seem to be the trickster Panurge — pan ourgos — who speaks all languages but finally cannot get Pantagruel to read the truth of the body, but it would be more accurate to say that the two of them — these two great friends — come together to form a single figure resembling that of Harry Berger. For Berger is first and foremost a humanist and a moral thinker. As Peter Erickson points out in his introduction to Making Trifles of Terrors, “Berger is resolutely — some might same relentlessly — moral in his critical pursuits,” and he is also importantly the classicist, the reader of Plato, the scholar of myth and epic.
Keywords: Harry Berger, Pantagruel, Panurge, pan ourgos, humanist, Peter Erickson, moral thinker, classicist
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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
