Geoffrey Hartman

<p>`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.'</p><p><em>Geoffrey Hartman</em> is 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.</p><p>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 <em>Geoffrey Hartman</em> he provides a valuable introduction to a major critical voice who has called into question our assumptions about the distinction between commentary and imaginative literature.</p>