The studies here concern three central topic of modern critical inquiry: the relation of literary analysis to psychoanalysis; the need for a more genuine type of literary history; and the question of the role and status of literary criticism in society today.

The fate of reading and other essays

Hartman, Geoffrey H.

Literature & Fiction

University of Chicago Press

Fate of Reading and Other Essays (Midway Reprint Series)

History & Criticism

Recipient of the 1998 Rene Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association; Finalist for the 29th Annual James Russell Lowell Prize, MLA ( Modern Language Association) One of our most incisive critics asks where the assault against the canons of Western culture has led us. Engaging a wide range of literature and criticism, Hartman considers the term "culture" and its many uses, and calls for the restoration of literature to its place as the focus of thinking about culture and for the renewal of aesthetic education to help ensure the balance between art, culture, and politics.

The Fateful Question of Culture (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Columbia Univ. Pr.

""A virtue of The Longest Shadow is that, despite the familiarity of many of its pieces, it feels more initiatory than recapitulative..."" -- Modern Jewish Studies
""The Longest Shadow illuminates the dangers inherent in representations of the Holocaust and of the obverse, the denial, of that unique part of our history."" -- Judaism: Quarterly Journal
""The Longest Shadow, a collection of essays on the cultural 'aftermath' of the Holocaust by the literary critic Geoffrey Hartman, epitomizes this conflicted legacy of silence and speech, of numbness and feeling -- and of withdrawal and desire for connection. If Hartman's essays confront the inadequacy of language in the bewildering, alienating wake of the Holocaust, they also resonate with a sense of loneliness that makes silence and isolation unbearable.""A -- Joanne Jacobson, The Nation
""The personal narratives that frame the book also contain by far its richest pages, both emotionally and in the theoretical speculations to which they give rise."" -- Times Literary Supplement
Distinguished literary scholar Geoffrey H. Hartman, himself forced to leave Germany at age nine, collects his essays, both scholarly and personal, that focus on the Holocaust. Hartman contends that although progress has been made, we are only beginning to understand the horrendous events of 1933 to 1945.

The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies)

History

World

Indiana University Press

Beyond formalism;: Literary essays, 1958-1970,

Yale University Press

The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities.

Criticism in the wilderness: The study of literature today

Midrash and Literature

Essays discuss Jewish critical interpretations of the Bible and the influence of these writings on modern literature

Religion & Spirituality

Budick, Sanford

Judaism

Yale Univ Pr

For most people literary criticism is a mystery that often seems inaccessible, written for an in-group. Even worse, a Battle of the Books has broken out between neoconservatives and neoradicals―all the more reason to steer clear of the fray. Geoffrey Hartman argues that ignoring the culture wars would be unwise, for what is at stake is the nature of the arts we prize and our obligation to remain civil and avoid the apocalyptic tone of most political prophecy.Hartman’s book is both a survey of the history of modern literary criticism and a strategic intervention. First he presents an account of the culture of criticism in the last one hundred years. He then widens the focus to provide a picture of the critical essay from 1700 to the present in order to show that a major change in style took place after 1950. Two chapters focus on F. R. Leavis and Paul de Man, central―and controversial―figures in academic criticism. Hartman attends to major developments on the continent and in Anglo-American circles that have disrupted the calm of what he calls the friendship or conversational style. On the one hand, critics and thinkers have pursued strange gods in order to enrich and sharpen their critical style. This change Hartman welcomes. On the other hand, along with a renewed interest in politics and historical speculation, a didactic and moralistic tone has again entered the scene. Hartman rejects this new moralism.The author is an eloquent defender of reading the text of criticism as carefully as the text of literature. He argues for a broader conception of critical style, one that would support the open and conversational voice of the public critic as well as the inventive and innovative practice of the technical critic. Hartman sets before us an ideal of literary criticism that can acknowledge theory yet does not shrink from a sustained, text-centered response. Minor Prophecies is a major book by one of our finest critics.

Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars (Harvard East Asian Monographs; 135)

Harvard University Press

The Geoffrey Hartman Reader

Geoffrey Hartman is a pivotal figure in twentieth-century literary thinking,especially in literary theory and its transformation into such fields as Holocauststudies, trauma studies, and work on witnessing and testimony. The essays inthis reader, preceded by an important autobiographical introduction, presentthe full range of Hartman's interests, which cover almost the entire field ofcontemporary literature and culture-from poetry through psychoanalysisand 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 thatcould travel from one civilization to another and could satisfy safely rather thanexacerbate self-destructively the repetitive human drive to reverse time andexact apocalyptic vengeance.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Edinburgh University Press

Winner of the 2006 Truman Capote Prize for Literary Achievement Geoffrey Hartman's interests range over almost the entire field of contemporary literature and culture. In this, the first Reader of his work, significant essays reflect his abiding interest in English and American poetry, focusing not only on Romanticism but also on the transition from early modern to modern and including reflections on the radical elements in artistic representation. Hartman, whose book on Wordsworth changed our understanding of that poet, brings theory and close reading together. A major consideration of Freud is accompanied by intensive analyses of Lacan and Derrida, and a psychoesthetic theory of literary genesis is proposed. Popular literature is examined through the American detective novel; Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Bernard Malamud are brought together in an examination of realism; the premodern mode of midrashic interpretation is reintroduced to literary study; and major trends in criticism, including trauma studies, receive attention. Hartman's assessment of the media revolution and cultural studies is represented by shorter pieces of film criticism as well as his classic essays on 'Public Memory and its Discontents' and 'Tele-Suffering and Testimony' - the latter also describes a pioneering effort to collect on video the experiences of Holocaust survivors. This anthology is both highly readable and, because of its range and intellectual vigour, essential for all those concerned with the fate of the humanities and the future of literary criticism. Features *Leading US critic of contemporary literature and culture, particularly in the areas of poetry, Romanticism, trauma studies, public culture, pedagogy, and literary theory and criticism *Selection ranges across Geoffrey Hartman's illustrious career with the readings organised into six thematic parts *Publication coincides with the 50th anniversary of Geoffrey Hartman's first published book

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The fate of reading and other essays

Fate of Reading and Other Essays (Midway Reprint Series)

The Fateful Question of Culture (The Wellek Library Lectures)

The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies)

Beyond formalism;: Literary essays, 1958-1970,

Criticism in the wilderness: The study of literature today

Midrash and Literature

Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars (Harvard East Asian Monographs; 135)

The Geoffrey Hartman Reader

The Geoffrey Hartman Reader