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Situated Utterances : Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations /
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 rang...
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part one. Situating Utterance
- One. The Interpretive Shuttle: The Structure of Critical Practice after World War II
- Two. Bodies and Texts
- Part two. Situating Agency: Texts against Countertexts
- Three. The Origins of Bucolic Representation: Disenchantment and Revision in Theocritus's Seventh Idyll
- Four. Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene
- Five. The Pepys Show: Ghostwriting and Documentary Desire in The Diary
- Part three. Situating History: Contexts as Countertexts
- Six. From Body to Cosmos: The Dynamics of Representation in Precapitalist Society
- Seven. The Lie of the Land: The Text beyond Canaan
- Eight. Social Structure as Doom: The Limits of Heroism in Beowulf
- Nine. Fiction and Facticity: Reflections on Christian Nudity
- Part four. Situating Socrates: The Sublation of Socratic Utterance in Plato's Dialogues
- Ten. Facing Sophists: Socrates' Charismatic Bondage in Protagoras
- Eleven. Phaedrus and the Politics of Inscription
- Twelve. The Athenian Terrorist: Plato's Portrait of Critias
- Part five. Conclusion: Situating Interpretation
- Thirteen. Making Interpretation Manageable: An Eight-Step Program
- Notes
- Index