Geoffrey Hartman

Geoffrey H. Hartman (August 11, 1929 – March 14, 2016) was a German-born 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.

Biography Geoffrey H. Hartmann was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, in an Ashkenazi Jewish family. 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.

Selected works 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)