Geoffrey Hartman : criticism as answerable style / G. Douglas Atkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943-

Series:

Critics of the twentieth century (London, England)

Critics of the twentieth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hartman, Geoffrey H.

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Reader-response criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

`The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer. He calls to other texts ""that they might answer him.""' Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the `intellectual poetry' of the critic who, whether or not he `represents the future of the profession', is a unique and major voice in twentieth-century criticism. Professor Atkins explains clearly Hartman's key ideas and places his work in the contexts of Romanticism and Judaism on which he has written extensively. In Geoffrey Hartman he

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of Hatman's texts; 1 Reading Hartman; 2 A matter of relation, a question of place: Hartman and contemporary criticism; 3 The wandering jew: Hartman's relation to Judaism and Romanticism; 4 Calling voices out of silence: Criticism as echo-chamber; 5 ""Dying into the life of recollection"" the burden of artistic vocation; 6 Estranging the familiar: Hartman and the essay, or the cat Geoffrey at pranks; 7 It's about time: negative hermeneutics and the fate of reading

Appendix I Appendix II; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-134-97688-7

1-134-97689-5

1-280-46332-5

9786610463329

0-203-00221-0

9780203002216

OCLC:

475873939