{"product_id":"a-scholars-tale-9780823228331","title":"A Scholars Tale","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribes author's early education, uncanny sense of vocation, and development as a literary scholar and cultural critic. This title looks back at how author's career who was influenced by his experience, at the age of nine, of being a refugee from Nazi Germany in the Kinder transport.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Hartman] has written a rather different book: the record of a stellar career as a scholar, critic, and teacher that spans decades of changes in the academy to be sure, but one which insists on the primacy of the intellectual life.\" -Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature \"Long before TV reality shows, Hartman questioned the show of reality.\" -The Wordsworth Circle \"The journey detailed here is at once intensely personal and curiously remote.\" -American Book Review \"Casting a critical backward glance, Hartman delineates the evolution of a life of and in learning over five remarkably productive decades.\" -- -Elizabeth Freund Partial Answers \"A Scholar's Tale begins to unravel the mask of impersonality that allowed Hartman, a brilliant reader, to dismiss the personal dimension of literary criticism a quarter-century ago.\" -Southern Humanities Review \"Hartman's tale doesn't disappoint.\" -Arcade \"Hartman's unsentimental tale plots a fascinating course through a critic's mind.\" -Forward \"In the end, what is perhaps most compelling about Professor Hartman's story is his life-long engagement with the matter of Judaism, his own complex relation to Jewish identity.\" -Jewish Book World \"[A] lucid and intriguing autobiographical memoir.\" -London Review of Books","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406124753239,"sku":"9780823228331","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823228331.jpg?v=1730494613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-scholars-tale-9780823228331","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}