LEADER 03998nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910822963703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4695-7 010 $a1-282-69877-X 010 $a9786612698774 010 $a0-8232-3727-3 010 $a0-8232-2834-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237272 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008068 035 $a(OCoLC)647876477 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10365096 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000442124 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11269509 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442124 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10444016 035 $a(PQKB)11534948 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239476 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14913 035 $a(DE-B1597)555088 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237272 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239476 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365096 035 $a(OCoLC)730040895 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770022 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476660 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476660 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008068 100 $a20070718d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA scholar's tale $eintellectual journey of a displaced child of Europe /$fGeoffrey Hartman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-2833-9 311 $a0-8232-2832-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-195). 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tA Scholar? s Tale -- $tAPPENDIX -- $tNOTES 330 $aFor 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 ?biobibliography? of 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.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. 606 $aCritics$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aCritics 676 $a801/.95092 676 $aB 700 $aHartman$b Geoffrey H$0193577 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822963703321 996 $aA scholar's tale$93954854 997 $aUNINA