Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Drama
7. Chapter 1. Enlisting in Harry Berger’s Imaginary Forces 13
8. Chapter 2. Harry Berger and Self-Hatred 23
9. Chapter 3. Complicity and Catharsis: The Immature Criticism of Harry Berger 31
10. Chapter 4. Sack Drama 45
11. Chapter 5. Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production: Michael Radford’s Film Version of The Merchant of Venice 58
12. Part Two. Harry’s Bower of Bliss
13. Chapter 6. Acrasian Fantasies: Outsides, Insides, Upsides, Downsides in the Bower of Bliss 77
14. Chapter 7. Harry Berger’s Genius: Porting Pleasure in the Bower of Bliss 92
15. Chapter 8. Taking Another Peek 104
16. Part Three. Critical and Cultural Theory
17. Chapter 9. Close Reading Transformed: The New Criticism and the World 115
18. Chapter 10. Thinking Culture, and Beyond 125
19. Chapter 11. Bergerama: New Critical and Poststructural Theory in the Work of Harry Berger, Jr 139
20. Part Four. Visual Arts
21. Chapter 12. The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger 165
22. Chapter 13. Harry Berger’s Sprezzatura and the Poses of Cicero’s de Oratore 182
23. Chapter 14. What Art Historians Can Learn from Harry 197
24. Part Five. Reading Plato
25. Chapter 15. Platonic Irony in Berger 215
26. Chapter 16. Situating Harry’s Plato 227
27. Part Six. Intellectual Community
28. Chapter 17. The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland 237
29. Chapter 18. How Harry Taught 255
30. Chapter 19. Harry Berger’s Intellectual Community 264
31. The Last Word ‘‘All Your Writers Do Consent That Ipse Is He’’
32. Chapter 20. Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave 273
33. Notes 281
34. Harry Berger,Jr.: Bio-bibliography 333
35. Contributors 349
36. Select Publications Index 353
37. Index 355