Bücher von Harry Berger

In Resisting Allegory, the leading Spenser critic of our time sums up a lifelong commitment to the theory and practice of textual interpretation. Central to this volume is an attention to the deployment of gender in conjunction with the Berger's notion of narrative complicity, all built on close attention to the text.

Figures of a Changing World develops an account of culture change that is based on the distinction between the two rhetorical figures of metaphor and metonymy. These figures are applied both to the large-scale interpretation of tensions in culture change and to the micro-interpretation of tensions within particular texts.

A study of seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting

In Situated Utterances Berger designs an analytical model of New Criticism, shows how it was dismantled after the Second World War, and demonstrates practice in studies of specific works. The scope of the practice is broadened to the connection between cultural representations and institutional change. Plato's dialogues are also covered.

Discusses embarrassment not merely as a condition but as a weapon and as the wound the weapon inflicts