Geoffrey Hartman - Wikipedia Geoffrey Hartman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Geoffrey Hartman Born Geoffrey H. Hartmann[1] (1929-08-11)August 11, 1929 Frankfurt, Germany Died March 14, 2016(2016-03-14) (aged 86) Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. Education Queens College, CUNY Yale University Occupation Literary critic Known for Yale school, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Geoffrey H. Hartman (August 11, 1929 – March 14, 2016) was a German-born[2] American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, although he cannot be categorised by a single school or method. Hartman spent most of his career in the comparative literature department at Yale University, where he also founded the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Biography[edit] Geoffrey H. Hartmann was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, in an Ashkenazi Jewish family.[1] In 1939 he left Germany for England as an unaccompanied Kindertransport child refugee, sent away by his family to escape the Nazi regime. He came to the United States in 1946, where he was reunited with his mother, and later became an American citizen. Upon arrival in the US, his mother changed the family surname to "Hartman" to obscure its Germanic origin.[1] Hartman attended Queens College, City University of New York and received his PhD from Yale. After appointments at the University of Iowa and Cornell in the 1950s, Hartman returned to Yale and was eventually made Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. One of his long-term interests was the English poet William Wordsworth. His work explores the nature of the creative imagination, as well as the interrelationship of literature and literary commentary.[1][3] He helped found the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, and lectured on issues dealing with the production and implications of testimony. Bibliography[edit] The Unmediated Vision: An Interpretation of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke, and Valéry (1954) André Malraux (1960) Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 (1964) Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970 (1970) The Fate of Reading and Other Essays (1975) Akiba's Children (1978) Psychoanalysis and the Question of the Text: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1976-77 (1978, editor) Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (1980) Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy (1981) Easy Pieces (1985) Midrash and Literature (1986, editor) Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective (1986, editor) The Unremarkable Wordsworth (1987) Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars (1991) The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (1996) The Fateful Question of Culture (1997) A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998 (1999) Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (2004) A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe (2007) See also[edit] List of deconstructionists References[edit] ^ a b c d Fox, Margalit (20 March 2016). "Geoffrey H. Hartman, Scholar Who Saw Literary Criticism as Art, Dies at 86". New York Times. Retrieved 13 April 2016. ^ Balint, Benjamin (May 22, 2008). "From Frankfurt to New Haven". The Forward. ^ "Geoffrey H. Hartman." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 17 October 2016. External links[edit] "Hartman bibliography". Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan in 1992, and updated circa 2001 For a review of Hartman's memoirs, see Balint, Benjamin (May 22, 2008). "From Frankfurt to New Haven". The Forward. Authority control BIBSYS: 90065003 BNF: cb120252803 (data) GND: 119373467 ISNI: 0000 0001 0930 9707 LCCN: n80034213 LNB: 000105499 NKC: ola2012697596 NTA: 069176418 PLWABN: 9810578466105606 SELIBR: 190156 SUDOC: 028412982 VIAF: 24402 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n80034213 This biography of an American English academic is a stub. 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