Reviews"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, "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., 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., "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, The Geoffrey Hartman Reader is long overdue. Geoffrey Hartman has beena major literary/cultural figure since the late 1950s and his energiescontinue unabated., Geoffrey Hartman seems to me one of the most important literary critics andtheorists in the world.He is an exceptionally deep and decent thinker. I believethat his book will be a landmark.
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SynopsisGeoffrey 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., 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPN75.H33A25 2004