A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, 'Manhood, Marriage, & Mischief' offers an account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait ...
It is rapacitas. Caterpillage also explores the impact of this message on the meaning of the genre's French name. We use the conventional term nature morte ("dead nature") without giving any thought to how misleading it is.
The book treats metonymy as the basic organizing trope of traditional culture and metaphor as the basic organizing trope of modern culture.
Includes 84 illustrations, 40 in color. Specialists in the field should be interested in Berger s re-interpretation of particular portraits by Rembrandt and other artists. . . . More general readers can benefit from these summaries. . .
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 ...
Couch City is a close reading of the comic procedures Socrates deploys against Protagoras as he reduces him to silence. But it also shows that Socrates takes the danger posed by Protagoras and his fellow sophists seriously.
Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger’s notion of narrative complicity.
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 ...
. . . The essays in this book are essential reading for students of Renaissance culture.