The Geoffrey Hartman reader
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The Geoffrey Hartman reader
, c2004
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Winner of the 2006 Truman Capote Prize for Literary Achievement Geoffrey Hartman's interests range over almost the entire field of contemporary literature and culture. In this, the first Reader of his work, significant essays reflect his abiding interest in English and American poetry, focusing not only on Romanticism but also on the transition from early modern to modern and including reflections on the radical elements in artistic representation. Hartman, whose book on Wordsworth changed our understanding of that poet, brings theory and close reading together. A major consideration of Freud is accompanied by intensive analyses of Lacan and Derrida, and a psychoesthetic theory of literary genesis is proposed. Popular literature is examined through the American detective novel; Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Bernard Malamud are brought together in an examination of realism; the premodern mode of midrashic interpretation is reintroduced to literary study; and major trends in criticism, including trauma studies, receive attention.
Hartman's assessment of the media revolution and cultural studies is represented by shorter pieces of film criticism as well as his classic essays on 'Public Memory and its Discontents' and 'Tele-Suffering and Testimony' - the latter also describes a pioneering effort to collect on video the experiences of Holocaust survivors. This anthology is both highly readable and, because of its range and intellectual vigour, essential for all those concerned with the fate of the humanities and the future of literary criticism. Features *Leading US critic of contemporary literature and culture, particularly in the areas of poetry, Romanticism, trauma studies, public culture, pedagogy, and literary theory and criticism *Selection ranges across Geoffrey Hartman's illustrious career with the readings organised into six thematic parts *Publication coincides with the 50th anniversary of Geoffrey Hartman's first published book
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Authors' Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- The Culture of Vision
- Daniel T. O'Hara
- Autobiographical Introduction
- 'Life and Learning'
- I The Interpretation of Poetry
- 1. Christopher Smart's 'Magnificat'
- 2. Evening Star and Evening Land
- 3. Wordsworth's Magic Mountains
- 4. The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis
- 5. Romance and Modernity: Keats's 'Ode to Psyche'
- 6. Purification and Danger in American Poetry
- II Theory and History
- 7. Pure Representation
- 8. The New Perseus
- 9. The Heroics of Realism
- 10. Literature High and Low
- 11. Romanticism and Anti-Self-consciousness
- 12. Text and Spirit
- 13. Midrash as Law and Literature
- 14. The Voice of the Shuttle
- III Positions
- 15. Practical Criticism
- 16. The Sacred Jungle
- 17. Radical Art and Radical Analysis
- 18. The Critical Essay between Theory and Tradition
- 19. Literary Commentary as Literature
- 20. Words and Wounds
- 21. Reading, Trauma, Pedagogy
- IV Culture
- Literature and Social Text
- 22. Defining Culture
- 23. The Question of Our Speech
- 24. Pastoral Vestiges
- 25. Realism and 'America'
- 26. The Reinvention of Hate
- Film
- 27. Jeanne Moreau's Lumiere
- 28. Spielberg's Schindler's List
- The Psychoanalytic Scandal
- 29. The Interpreter's Freud
- 30. Lacan, Derrida, and the Specular Name
- V Memory
- 31. Public Memory and its Discontents
- 32. Tele-Suffering and Testimony
- 33. Poetics after the Holocaust
- VI Coda
- 34. Passion and Literary Engagement
- Index.
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