Geoffrey Hartman Criticism as Answerable Style [Paperback]

`The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer. He calls to other texts that they might answer him. '

Geoffrey Hartmanis the first book devoted to an exploration of the `intellectual poetry' of the critic who, whether or not he `represents the future of the profession', is a unique and major voice in twentieth-century criticism.
Professor Atkins explains clearly Hartman's key ideas and places his work in the contexts of Romanticism and Judaism on which he has written extensively. In Geoffrey Hartmanhe provides a valuable introduction to a major critical voice who has called into question our assumptions about the distinction between commentary and imaginative literature.