The Geoffrey Hartman Reader - Geoffrey Hartman

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:

GEOFFREY HARTMAN is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale and Project Director of its FortunoffVideo 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.

Sommaire:
Geoffrey Hartman was Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University and Project Director of its Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. His many books include The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies (2011), A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe (2007), The Geoffrey Hartman Reader (2004, winner, Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism), Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (2004), The Fateful Question of Culture (1997), The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (1996), The Unremarkable Wordsworth (1987), Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (1980, 2nd ed., 2007), The Fate of Reading and Other Essays (1975), Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970 (1970), and Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 (1964, winner, Christian Gauss Award)....