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

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Drama""; ""Enlisting in Harry Berger�s Imaginary Forces""; ""Harry Berger and Self-Hatred""; ""Complicity and Catharsis: The Immature Criticism of Harry Berger""; ""Sack Drama""; ""Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production: Michael Radford�s Film Version of The Merchant of Venice""; ""Harry�s Bower of Bliss""; ""Acrasian Fantasies: Outsides, Insides, Upsides, Downsides in the Bower of Bliss""; ""Harry Berger�s Genius: Porting Pleasure in the Bower of Bliss""; ""Taking Another Peek""; ""Critical and Cultural Theory"";Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very broad his interests are, moving from Shakespeare to baroque painting, to Plato, to theories of early culture. In this volume a distinguished group of scholars gathers to celebrate the work of Harry Berger, Jr. To ""celebrate, "" in Berger's words, is ""to visit something either in great numbers or else frequently-to go away and come back, go away and come back, go away and come back. Celebrating is wh.