Geoffrey H Hartman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 316574 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Geoffrey H Hartman |
| NOMBRES | Geoffrey H |
| APELLIDO | Hartman |
| FIRMA | HARTMAN G H |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1955 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Theology and the Imagination
Levinas has said that Judaism is a religion for adults. He said this not to disparage other religions but in the context of valuing the Talmudic/midrashic mode of commentary and law-finding. In Midrash, he claims, reason recognizes itself. My argument here is that imagination too should recognize itself, in all religions. For illustration this essay chooses a basic theological constant, the story of Creation. It is my hope that when theology's im…
Psychoanalysis as a Cultural Ideal
The literary quality of Freud’s prose is generally acknowledged, and his case histories have the allure of novellas. The present essay explores what Freud himself, in a letter to Fliess, called “form feeling” ( Formgefühl ). Focusing mainly on his Gradiva commentary, the author argues that this form sensitivity has not only presentational importance but is deeply involved in the revisionary cultural aims of the new science of psychoanalysis. Freu…
Wandlung des kulturellen Gedächtnisses. Wordsworth als Balladenautor«
Homage toGlas
The Passing of the Canon
This chapter focuses on the response of Geoffrey Hartman to Frank Kermode's lectures. Hartman questions the role of pleasure set forth by Kermode. He criticizes the use of the term pleasure as “problematic or abysmal” and “remains descriptively poor when thematized this way.” Hartmann then discusses his own interpretation of Wordsworth's “Resolution and Independence” and moves on to suggest that a way of approaching the discussion on canon format…
The Humanities of Testimony
El comentario literario como literatura
El comentario literario como literatura
The Power of Contestation
"One of the first French intellectuals to take a systematic interest in questions of language and meaning, Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) substantially influenced such thinkers as Deleuze, Foucault, Barthes, Levinas, and Derrida. Until recently, Blanchot's work remained largely unknown outside France, in part because of its complexity and in part because Blanchot shunned intellectual celebrity. Over the past decade, however, nearly all of Blanchot'…
The Geoffrey Hartman Reader
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 representatio…
Narrative and Beyond
In "Narrative and Beyond," a teacher, who has also been active setting up interviews with Holocaust survivors, reflects on the role literary study can play in fostering the listening process. While recognizing the difference between survivor interviews and specifically medical relationships, his essay argues for the personal as well as strictly medicinal benefit to both sides when life stories are elicited and an alliance is established in which …
‘Language and Culture after the Holocaust’
Witnessing Video Testimony
Geoffrey Hartman's role as co-founder of Yale University's Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and his continued involvement with the Archive have provided the catalyst for his work on video testimony. While such considerations may seem far from the studies of Wordsworth that marked the beginning of his career, an interest in vision and the visual, as well as a concern with literature and the aesthetic, manifests itself in both his early …
Criticism in the Wilderness
Benjamin in Hope
Learning from Survivors
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimionies at Yale University, founded in 1981, is dedicated to recording the experiences of those who survived the Holocaust and of others not directly persecuted who witnessed aspects of the genocide. Videotaping in England, France, Belgium, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Israel and Argentina as well as In the USA, the Yale Archive may be one of the largest audiovisual efforts of its kind, an “oral testimony” …
On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies
On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies Geoffrey H. Hartman (bio) I Both philosophical and linguistic skepticism, whether of the anarchic or the methodical kind, have challenged the possibility of certain knowledge. Trauma theory introduces a psychoanalytic skepticism as well, which does not give up on knowledge but suggests the existence of a traumatic kind, one that cannot be made entirely conscious, in the sense of being fully retrieved or…
Midrash as Law and Literature
Higher Education in the 1990s
SWANT TO DESCRIBE an important if obvious tension in the university today. The pressure to modify the openness of American society, coming from those who say that an unthinking or unrestricted cultural relativism will damage education and so jeopardize, if not the state directly then the quality of citizenship we bring to it, is countered by those who claim that this openness is either inadequate or a sham, and that racial, cultural, and genderba…
Shakespeare and the Question of Theory
Hartman's Contagious Orbit
Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective
Midrash and Literature
Shakespeare and the Question of Theory
The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly the locus of emerging debates within, and with, theory itself. This collection of essays, written by distinguished and powerful critics in the f…
Midrash and Literature
The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays
On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies
On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies Geoffrey H. Hartman (bio) I Both philosophical and linguistic skepticism, whether of the anarchic or the methodical kind, have challenged the possibility of certain knowledge. Trauma theory introduces a psychoanalytic skepticism as well, which does not give up on knowledge but suggests the existence of a traumatic kind, one that cannot be made entirely conscious, in the sense of being fully retrieved or…
Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective
Learning from Survivors
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimionies at Yale University, founded in 1981, is dedicated to recording the experiences of those who survived the Holocaust and of others not directly persecuted who witnessed aspects of the genocide. Videotaping in England, France, Belgium, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Israel and Argentina as well as In the USA, the Yale Archive may be one of the largest audiovisual efforts of its kind, an “oral testimony” …
The Humanities of Testimony
Benjamin in Hope
Midrash as Law and Literature
Higher Education in the 1990s
SWANT TO DESCRIBE an important if obvious tension in the university today. The pressure to modify the openness of American society, coming from those who say that an unthinking or unrestricted cultural relativism will damage education and so jeopardize, if not the state directly then the quality of citizenship we bring to it, is countered by those who claim that this openness is either inadequate or a sham, and that racial, cultural, and genderba…
Homage toGlas
Wordsworth and Goethe in Literary History
importance for the person we consider its principal founder. I may soon persecute you with a Psychology drawn from the poems of Ossian, Herder warns the reader in his letters on German Art published in I773-1 psychology he refers to is clearly what we now call historicism. The human race is destined to undergo a procession of scenes, of types of culture and manners: woe to the man who does not like his part in the drama in which he must act out a…
The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis
There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore: Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched 5 To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree! a living thing 10 Produced too slowly ev…
The Fulness and Nothingness of Literature
The Taming of History
Milton's Counterplot
Camus and Malraux
Marvell, St. Paul, and the Body of Hope
Stanzas V and VI of The have become the cruxes of many contemporary interpretations of the poem.' Starting with an analysis of their difficulties, I would like to come to a more adequate reading of both The Garden and the Mower Poems. My first section will be a purely contextual study of V and VI, but I shall seek help, after that, from the relations of seventeenth-century poetry to religious thought and to emblem techniques. 1
Magnifying Wordsworth
Structuralism
Adam on the Grass with Balsamum
This is a curious first image. Reeking need not have the pejorative sense it bears today,2 but the picture of the sun feeding on man's sweat is startling enough. If it is a conceit on evaporation3 one wonders about the decorum of introducing it at a point which is the inaugural moment of human consciousness. If it stresses the place of the sun, its subordination to man who is the Heir of the World
History-Writing as Answerable Style
ALL MEN desire knowledge; but not the knowledge explosion. Knowledge may always have had mortal taste yet it used 1 to contain the promise of better position in the scale of being and surer sense of one's true or effective identity. But what if earth becomes an earth of ideas? The sea a metaphor for the multiplication of facts and sensations? What can soul desire, sitting unhappily on superstructures of explanation, poor bird, not knowing which w…
Athletic Criticism
War in Heaven
The Interpreter
ONFESSION. have a superiority complex vis-a-vis other critics, and an inferiority complex vis-a-vis art. The interpreter, molded on me, is an overgoer with pen-envy strong enough to compel him into the foolishness of print. His self-disgust is merely that of the artist, intensified. Joe, throw my book away. Sometimes his discontent with the secondary act of writing-with living in the reflective or imitative sphere-makes him privilege some primary…
Christopher Smart's Magnificat
Wordsworth and Goethe in Literary History
importance for the person we consider its principal founder. I may soon persecute you with a Psychology drawn from the poems of Ossian, Herder warns the reader in his letters on German Art published in I773-1 psychology he refers to is clearly what we now call historicism. The human race is destined to undergo a procession of scenes, of types of culture and manners: woe to the man who does not like his part in the drama in which he must act out a…
The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis
There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore: Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched 5 To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree! a living thing 10 Produced too slowly ev…
Literary Criticism and Its Discontents
The Concept of Character in Lawrence's First Play
The Recognition Scene of Criticism
A Short History of Practical Criticism
T HAT AT PRESENT preoccupies scholars and students in the / literary humanities is clear: the lack of interaction between v v their profession and the mainstream of society. Though this is a recurrent problem, I. A. Richards had thought to find a secure place for literary studies by denying the existence of a phantom aesthetic state and basing the critic's work on two pillars. two pillars upon which a theory of must rest are an account of value a…
Interview with Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University, March 19, 1979
Hartman: I'm not sure that I complain about it. I show that there is a difference of traditions, that in the case of Anglo-American criticism or style of thought as it has developed through the academy, there is a greater emphasis on a certain kind of pedagogical decorum. Whereas in Europe, although that is a large generalization, there seems to be more flexibility in terms of audience or style of thought. Clearly, there is a university style in …
Geoffrey Hartman, Geoffrey Hartman
Saving the Text
Criticism in the Wilderness
Saving the Text
Criticism in the Wilderness
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