Research Catalog

Title

A critic's journey : literary reflections, 1958-1998 / Geoffrey Hartman.

Author

Hartman, Geoffrey H.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xxxi, 297 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "Geoffrey Hartman, one of the most distinguished literary scholars in America, has been a commentator on and participant in the literary-critical scene for more than forty years.
• He was one of the first to question the "formalism" of the New Critics, he helped to introduce such European critics as Walter Benjamin, Andre Malraux, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida to American audiences, and he has expanded our knowledge of the history of criticism by pointing to the relevance of the Jewish rabbinic tradition and of psychoanalytic modes of interpretation.
• This book - a collection of Hartman's essays from throughout his career - sheds new light on the past four turbulent decades of criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Literature, Modern > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Polemical Memoir -- Theory. Tea and Totality. Understanding Criticism. The Philomela Project. The Voice of the Shuttle -- Cases. The Struggle for the Text. Shakespeare and the Ethical Question. Milton's Counterplot. False Themes and Gentle Minds. Wordsworth's Touching Compulsion. Purification and Danger in American Poetry. The Case of the Mystery Story. Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Walter Benjamin in Hope -- Speculations. The Interpreter's Freud. Words and Wounds. The Reinvention of Hate. Public Memory and Modern Experience. Art, Consensus, and Progressive Politics. Higher Education at the Millennium.

ISBN

0300080433

LCCN

99012120

OCLC

ocm40668199

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries