Geoffrey Hartman Summary

Critical Essay by Terrence Des Pres Criticism in the Wilderness may be the best, most brilliant, most broadly useful book yet written by an American about the sudden swerve from the safety of establi... Read more

Critical Essay by Frederick Crews There can be no mistaking the fact that the study of meaning has now been vigorously contested. Some theorists hold that such study is always marred by a simplistic ... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement To call Professor Hartman's new book Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787–1814 is about as relevant as squeezing the late C. S. Lewis between... Read more

Critical Essay by Joseph N. Riddel Though there is evidence here and there that [Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays 1958–1970] is a kind of housecleaning before a new start, Professor Hartman h... Read more

Critical Essay by Denis Donoghue The Fate of Reading is a new selection of Geoffrey Hartman's writings, from work published during the past five years. Many essays resume the themes of an earl... Read more

Critical Essay by Donald Marshall Formalism—called "New Criticism" when it was still young, aggressive, and ambitious—seems to have died from its own success. Any ordinary... Read more