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...

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...