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Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / / Harry Berger, Jr
| Caterpillage : reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting / / Harry Berger, Jr |
| Autore | Berger Harry, Jr., <1924-2021.> |
| Edizione | [[1st ed.].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (132 pages) |
| Disciplina | 758/.40949209032 |
| Soggetto topico |
Still-life painting, Dutch - 17th century
Death in art |
| ISBN |
0-8232-7506-X
0-8232-3315-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prologue -- Hyperreality and truthiness -- Reading Blake's "The Sick rose" -- Ethics versus technics in seventeenth-century Dutch still life -- Vanitas : the McGuffin of still life -- Still life, trade, and truthiness -- The pretext of occasion : Floris van Dijck's Laid table with cheese and fruit, c. 1615 -- Nature mourant : the fictiveness of Dutch realism -- The embarrassment of niches : Christoffel van den Berghe's Vase of flowers in a stone niche, 1617 -- Nature mourant : Bosschaert's Leaves, Merian's Caterpillars -- "Small-scale violence" -- The darker spirit : Van Huysum's heaps -- Posies : the bouquet as pretext of occasion -- Joris Hoefnagel and the roots of Dutch flower painting -- Conclusion. Allegorical capture and interpretive release. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Reflections on seventeenth century Dutch still life painting |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781002303321 |
Berger Harry, Jr., <1924-2021.>
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| New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A fury in the words [[electronic resource] ] : love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / / Harry Berger, Jr
| A fury in the words [[electronic resource] ] : love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / / Harry Berger, Jr |
| Autore | Berger Harry, Jr., <1924-2021.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Embarrassment in literature
Love in literature |
| ISBN |
0-8232-4620-5
0-8232-4197-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment -- Introduction -- Negotiating the bond -- Antonio's blues -- Curiositas: the two Sallies -- Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment -- Negative usury: Portia's ring trick -- Portia the embarrasser -- The archery of embarrassment -- The first Jason -- A note on verse and prose in Act 1 -- Another Jason -- Portia cheating -- Portia's hair -- The siege of Belmont -- Covinous casketeers -- Moonlit maundering -- Coigns of vantage -- Standing for judgment -- Standing for sacrifice -- "Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market -- Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle -- Death in Venice -- Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. Prehistory in Othello -- Othello's embarrassment in 1.2 and 1.3 -- The proclamation scenes: Act 2 scenes 2 and 3 -- Desdemona on Cyprus: Act 2 scene 1 -- Dark triangles in 3.3 -- Desdemona's greedy ear -- Impertinent trifling: Desdemona's handkerchief -- The Emilian trail -- Iago's soliloquies -- Othello's endgame -- The fury in her words. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788255303321 |
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Berger Harry, Jr., <1924-2021.>
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| New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Human Security For All : A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello / / Harry Berger
| Human Security For All : A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello / / Harry Berger |
| Autore | Berger Harry, Jr., <1924-2021.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Disciplina | 757.09492/09032 |
| Soggetto topico |
Portraits, Group - 17th century - Netherlands
Portrait painting, Dutch |
| ISBN |
0-8232-4093-2
0-8232-4814-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Title Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction: A Shot in the Dark ""; ""Part 1: Group Portraits and the Fictions of the Pose ""; ""Chapter 1: Toward the Interpretation of Performance Anxiety ""; ""Chapter 2: Portraiture and the Fictions of the Pose ""; ""Chapter 3: The Posographical Imperative: A Comparison of Genres ""; ""Chapter 4: Group Portraiture: Coming Together and Coming Apart ""; ""Chapter 5: Alois Riegl and the Posographical Imperative ""; ""Chapter 6: Performance Anxiety and the Belated Viewer ""; ""Part 2: Militias and Marriage ""
""Chapter 7: Male Bondage and the Military Imperative """"Chapter 8: Social Sources of Performance Anxiety ""; ""Part 3: Picturing Family Values ""; ""Chapter 9: The Preacher's Wife ""; ""Chapter 10: Women with Elbows ""; ""Chapter 11: Families Making Music ""; ""Part 4: 'The Night Watch' as Homosocial Pastoral ""; ""Chapter 12: The Night Watch: How the Sandbank Crumbles ""; ""Chapter 13: Evasive Action: Three Ways to Shore Up the Sandbank ""; ""Chapter 14: Captain Cocq and the Unruly Mustketeer ""; ""Chapter 15: Disaggregation as Class Conflict "" ""Chapter 16: Manual Mischief: The Loneliness of the Red Musketeer """"Chapter 17: Between Stad and Stadholder: Captain Cocq's Dilemma ""; ""Chapter 18: Posographical Misfires ""; ""Chapter 19: An Odd Couple: The Ghost of Anslo's Wife ""; ""Coda: Playing Soldier ""; ""Notes ""; ""Index "" |
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Berger Harry, Jr., <1924-2021.>
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| New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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