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Geoffrey Hartman

ジェフリー・ハートマン

Jefurī Hāto man

Aliases: Geoffrey H. Hartman / Geoffrey H. Hartmann

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1929-08-11 （Frankfurt）
Died
2016-03-14 （Hamden, Connecticut） age 86
Nationality
German, American
Languages
English, German
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Germany (Frankfurt) → England → United States

Career

Occupations
Literary theorist, Literary critic
Active Years
1954-2016
Affiliations
Yale University
Influenced By
William Wordsworth

Education

Queens College, CUNY
Comparative Literature
Degree: BA
Country: USA
Undergraduate
Yale University
Comparative Literature
Degree: PhD
Country: USA
Doctoral studies

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Unmediated Vision

1954 Literary Criticism

Interpretation of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke, and Valéry

Creative Imagination

Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814

1964 Literary Criticism

Analysis of Wordsworth's poetry

Romantic Poetry

Criticism in the Wilderness

1980 Literary Criticism

The Study of Literature Today

Deconstruction

Bibliography

  • The Unmediated Vision (1954)
  • André Malraux (1960)
  • Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 (1964)
  • Beyond Formalism (1970)
  • The Fate of Reading (1975)
  • Akiba's Children (1978)
  • Criticism in the Wilderness (1980)
  • Saving the Text (1981)
  • Easy Pieces (1985)
  • Minor Prophecies (1991)
  • The Longest Shadow (1996)
  • Scars of the Spirit (2004)
  • A Scholar's Tale (2007)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
DeconstructiveComparative Literature
Recurring Motifs
Holocaust MemoryCreative Imagination

Legacy

Known as a Yale School deconstructionist, founded the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Explored literature and testimony.

Archives

  • Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University)

Trivia

  • Escaped Nazi Germany via Kindertransport to England in 1939.
  • Mother changed family name to Hartman upon arrival in the US.
  • Sterling Professor at Yale University.