The Geoffrey Hartman Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823224449 ISBN 13: 9780823224449

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Geoffrey Hartman is a pivotal figure in twentieth-century literary thinking,
especially in literary theory and its transformation into such fields as Holocaust
studies, trauma studies, and work on witnessing and testimony. The essays in
this reader, preceded by an important autobiographical introduction, present
the full range of Hartman’s interests, which cover almost the entire field of
contemporary literature and culture―from poetry through psychoanalysis
and trauma studies to midrash and the media revolution.

Throughout his career, starting with his earliest books on Romantic literature,
Hartman has interrogated the possibility of a healing culture of vision, one that
could travel from one civilization to another and could satisfy safely rather than
exacerbate self-destructively the repetitive human drive to reverse time and
exact apocalyptic vengeance.

About this title

About the Author:

GEOFFREY HARTMAN is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale and Project Director of its Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. His most recent books are The Geoffrey Hartman Reader (Fordham), winner of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism in Honor of Newton Arvin; Scars of the Spirit; The Longest Shadow; and a new edition of Criticism in the Wilderness.

Daniel T. O’Hara, Mellon Term Professor of English at Temple University, is the author of several books, including Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America.

Review:

“The Geoffrey Hartman Reader is a triumph.” (―Frances Ferguson University of Chicago)

“Geoffrey Hartman seems to me one of the most important literary critics and
theorists in the world.He is an exceptionally deep and decent thinker. I believe
that his book will be a landmark.”

(―Stephen Greenblatt Harvard University)

“The Geoffrey Hartman Reader is long overdue. Geoffrey Hartman has been
a major literary/cultural figure since the late 1950s and his energies
continue unabated.”

(―Stanley Fish University of Illinois at Chicago)

...an unexpected, secret gift...arrives on every page of The Geoffrey Hartman Reader. (―The Cambridge Quarterly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0823224449
• ISBN 13: 9780823224449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478
• Editor: Hartman Geoffrey, O'Hara Daniel T.