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portada Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2005
Language
English
Pages
396
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
0823224287
ISBN13
9780823224289
Edition No.
1
Categories

Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations

Harry Berger Jr.; Judith Anderson (Author) · Fordham University Press · Hardcover

Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations - Harry Berger Jr.; Judith Anderson

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Synopsis "Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations "

Berger describes himself as “a reconstructed old New Critic,” and hispublications over the past fifty years have centered on investigations of theways in which texts represent both themselves and their situations of utterance.The thirteen chapters of the present book illustrate the range of his inquiryacross several cultures and disciplines. They also demonstrate the interpretiverichness, the theoretical acumen, and the energetic prose that characterize thework of one of America’s premier “close readers.”Situated Utterances is divided into four parts. In Part One Berger designs ananalytical model of New Criticism and shows how it was dismantled during thedecades after the Second World War. He then proposes a reconstructed model inwhich the practice of ironic and suspicious “close reading” may be directed towardinteractions 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, andthe Diaries of Samuel Pepys. The scope of the practice is broadened in Part Threeto the connection between cultural representations and institutional change, aconnection explored in four chapters that successively examine precapitalistforms of representation, the Old Testament, Beowulf, and the conflict betweennakedness and nudity in Christian conceptions of the body. Part Four consistsin three chapters on Plato’s dialogues, which Berger interprets as critical of thegeneral situation of utterance in a predominantly oral culture. He argues thatPlato uses the resources of writing to depict the heroic pathos of a Socrates whosemethod 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 interpretivestrategies put into play by the author throughout his long career.

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