The Geoffrey Hartman reader / edited by Geoffrey Hartman and Daniel T. O'Hara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartman, Geoffrey H.

Contributor:

O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

History.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

ix, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2004.

Summary:

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 cultureugrave; 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0823224430

0823224449

OCLC:

56317824