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Harry Berger,Harry Berger, JR.
A study of seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting
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Harry Berger, Jr, has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown…
Harry Berger,Jr. Harry Berger
Considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare’s Henriad - Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. This book explores the effect of…
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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…
Harry Berger
This lavishly illustrated reading of the structure and meaning of portraiture asks what happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their…
Discusses embarrassment not merely as a condition but as a weapon and as the wound the weapon inflicts
This is a study of male fantasy, representation anxiety, and narratorial authority in Baldassare Castiglione’s Il libro del Cortegiano (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa’s Galateo (1558). It focuses on how…
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This collection contains 14 essays, written from the late 1970’s to the present, making available for the full scope of Berger’s unique approach to ethical discourses in Shakespeare’s plays.
A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, this title offers an account of the genre’s comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on…
Reads Rembrandt’s painting both as a deliberate parody by the sitters and as the artist’s covert parody of the sitters
The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters…
A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook…
Harris M. Berger
A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio’s Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene.
How we find and make meaning through music and performance
Harris Berger,Ruth Stone
Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights, Second Edition,is a foundational work for courses in ethnomusicological theory. The book examines key intellectual movements and topic areas in social and cultural theory…
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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…
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…
Sean Harris
This guide is a truly unique and informative book which is full of reliable and time tested information - written for the admirers and owners of this wonderful breed. Easy-to-read…
This training guide is a truly unique and informative book which is full of reliable and time tested information - written for the admirers and owners of this wonderful breed…
Robert Walser
A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterword
Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in English? If you’re rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination…
Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human world.
Harris M. Berger,Giovanna P. Del Negro
A critical examination of core issues in social and cultural theory.
Changing roles of women have reshaped patterns in marriage and divorce, childbearing, living arrangements and aspirations for education and career development. This book provides a statistical picture of women in…
Larry Berger,Lynn Harris
The college cookbook spiced with academic humor. Great gift idea.
Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato’s kalos kagathos, showing Socrates to be…
This collection brings together cultural studies and pop music accounts of metal around the world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Brazil, Malta, Slovenia, China, Japan, Norway, Israel, and Easter Island…
Michael Berger
A journey through the diverse world of nanotechnology research and development, covering 122 specific research projects taking place in laboratories around the world.
A consideration of continuous improvement (CI) practice and performance. It brings together the results of a survey conducted simultaneously in a number of countries, with the express intention of building…
Includes reflections from Jews and Roman Catholics on their struggles with the crucial and painful issues that continue to plague Christian-Jewish dialogue.
The Continuing Agony addresses the crucial and painful issues that continue to plague Christian-Jewish relations after Auschwitz. Despite these obstacles, the essays in this book profess hope for the future…
Katz transformed our understanding of Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, the social-historical significance of Jewish law, the rise of Orthodoxy in Germany and Hungary, and the emergence of modern…
