Geoffery 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 Benjamin, Malraux, Blanchot, Lacan, and 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 ...
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Geoffery 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 Benjamin, Malraux, Blanchot, Lacan, and 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 last four turbulent decades of criticism. In a lengthy introduction to the book, Hartman tells us about his life, the scholars who were his teachers or colleagues (among them Rene Wellek, Erich Auerbach, Harold Bloom, and Paul de Man), and some of the intellectual issues he has grappled with over the course of his career. The essays in the volume, many of which are out of print or not previously collected, are arranged here in three parts: "Theory" (such influential pieces as "Understanding Criticism" and "The Voice of the Shuttle"); "Cases" (with subjects ranging from Shakespeare to Wordsworth and from Hitchcock to the mystery story); and "Speculations" (concluding with an essay on "Higher Education at the Millennium.") The collection -- vintage Hartman -- brings his exemplary work to a new generation of readers.
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Some rubbing and light bumps to binding. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xxxi, 297 pp, In a lightly soiled dustwrapper. Contents: Polemical Memoir; Theory: Text & Totality; Understanding Criticism; The Philomela Project; The Voice of the Shuttle; The Struggle for the Text; Shakespeare & the Ethical Question; Milton's Counterplot; False Themes & Gentle Minds; Wordsworth's Touching Compulsion; Purification & 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 & Wounds; The Reinvention of Hate; Public Memory & Modern Experience; Art, Consensus & Progressive Politics; Higher Education at the Millenium.
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Like New. 1999 Yale University Press hard cover-1st edition 1st printing-a fine clean like new copy with like new dust jacket now in mylar cover-enjoy.
