The Character of Criticism

Geoffrey Galt Harpham is President and Director of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. His many books include On the Grotesque, The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism, Getting It Right: Language, Literature, and Ethics, One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad, Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society, and, most recently, Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity, also published by Routledge.