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Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations
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ISBN10: 0823224295
ISBN13: 9780823224296
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2005
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780823224296
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2005
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.23 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Berger describes himself as a reconstructed old New Critic, and his
publications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of the
ways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance.
The thirteen chapters of the present book illustrate the range of his inquiry
across several cultures and disciplines. They also demonstrate the interpretive
richness, the theoretical acumen, and the energetic prose that characterize the
work of one of America's premier close readers.
Situated Utterances is divided into four parts. In Part One Berger designs an
analytical model of New Criticism and shows how it was dismantled during the
decades after the Second World War. He then proposes a reconstructed model in
which the practice of ironic and suspicious close reading may be directed toward
interactions among bodies, texts, and countertexts in different cultural settings.
Part Two demonstrates this practice in studies of specific works in three genres:
the pastoral Idylls of Theocritus, Edmund Spenser's epic, The Faerie Queene, and
the Diaries of Samuel Pepys. The scope of the practice is broadened in Part Three
to the connection between cultural representations and institutional change, a
connection explored in four chapters that successively examine precapitalist
forms of representation, the Old Testament, Beowulf, and the conflict between
nakedness and nudity in Christian conceptions of the body. Part Four consists
in three chapters on Plato's dialogues, which Berger interprets as critical of the
general situation of utterance in a predominantly oral culture. He argues that
Plato uses the resources of writing to depict the heroic pathos of a Socrates whose
method and message are defeated by the politics of the oral medium.
Situated Utterances concludes with A Conspectus of Critical Moves:
The Eleven-Step Program. This is a summary account of the interpretive
strategies put into play by the author throughout his long career.
richness, the theoretical acumen, and the energetic prose that characterize the
work of one of America's premier close readers.
Situated Utterances is divided into four parts. In Part One Berger designs an
analytical model of New Criticism and shows how it was dismantled during the
decades after the Second World War. He then proposes a reconstructed model in
which the practice of ironic and suspicious close reading may be directed toward
interactions among bodies, texts, and countertexts in different cultural settings.
Part Two demonstrates this practice in studies of specific works in three genres:
the pastoral Idylls of Theocritus, Edmund Spenser's epic, The Faerie Queene, and
the Diaries of Samuel Pepys. The scope of the practice is broadened in Part Three
to the connection between cultural representations and institutional change, a
connection explored in four chapters that successively examine precapitalist
forms of representation, the Old Testament, Beowulf, and the conflict between
nakedness and nudity in Christian conceptions of the body. Part Four consists
in three chapters on Plato's dialogues, which Berger interprets as critical of the
general situation of utterance in a predominantly oral culture. He argues that
Plato uses the resources of writing to depict the heroic pathos of a Socrates whose
method and message are defeated by the politics of the oral medium.
Situated Utterances concludes with A Conspectus of Critical Moves:
The Eleven-Step Program. This is a summary account of the interpretive
strategies put into play by the author throughout his long career.
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