190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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`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.... Read more
Editor’s Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations of Hartman’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
Biography
Atkins, G. Douglas
