For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal
figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped
establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of
modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive
developments in literary theory in the late seventies, and he was a
pioneer in Jewish studies, trauma studies, and studies of the
Holocaust. At Yale, he was a founder of its Judaic Studies program,
as well as of the first major video archive for Holocaust
testimonies.Generations of students have benefited from Hartman's
generosity, his penetrating and incisive questioning, the wizardry
of his close reading, and his sense that the work of a literary
scholar, no less than that of an artist, is a creative act. All
these qualities shine forth in this intellectual memoir, which will
stand as his autobiography. Hartman describes his early education,
uncanny sense of vocation, and development as a literary scholar
and cultural critic. He looks back at how his career was influenced
by his experience, at the age of nine, of being a refugee from Nazi
Germany in the Kindertransport. He spent the next six years at
school in England, where he developed his love of English
literature and the English countryside, before leaving to join his
mother in America.Hartman treats us to a biobibliographyof his
engagements with the major trends in literary criticism. He covers
the exciting period at Yale handled so controversially by the media
and gives us vivid portraits, in particular, of Harold Bloom, Paul
de Man, and Jacques Derrida.SEND GEOFFREY COVER COPY All this is
set in the context of his gradual self-awareness of what
scholarship implies and how his personal displacements strengthened
his calling to mediate between European and American literary
cultures. Anyone looking for a rich, intelligible account of the
last half-century of combative literary studies will want to read
Geoffrey Hartman's unapologetic scholar's tale.
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