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Book SynopsisIn this, the first Reader of Geoffrey Hartman's 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.
Trade ReviewGeoffrey Hartman seems to me one of the most important literary critics and theorists in the world. He is an exceptionally deep and decent thinker. I believe that his book will be a landmark. -- Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Geoffrey Hartman seems to me one of the most important literary critics and theorists in the world. He is an exceptionally deep and decent thinker. I believe that his book will be a landmark.
Table of ContentsContents; 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.
