Geoffrey Hartman, Contributions to Periodicals

Eddie Yeghiayan

• "The Fullness and Nothingness of Literature." Yale French Studies (Winter 1955-56), 16: 63-78. On Blanchot.

• "The Taming of History: A Comparison of Poetry with Painting Based on Malraux's The Voices of Silence." Yale French Studies (Winter 1957), 18: 114-128.

• "Milton's Counterplot." ELH (March 1958), 25(1): 1-12.

  • Reprinted in Arthur Barker, ed., Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism, pp. 386-397. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

  • Reprinted in Louis L. Martz, ed., Milton: A Collection of Critical Essays, pp. 100-108. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

  • Reprinted in Critical Essays on Milton from ELH, pp. 151-162. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkibs Press, 1969.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp., 113- 123.

  • Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., John Milton, pp. 117-126. Modern Critical Views. New Haven and Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1986.

  • "Camus and Malraux: The Common Ground." Yale French Studies (Spring 1960), 25: 104-110.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 85-92.

• Notes to "Marianne Moore reads from her own works sound recording." (Yale series of recorded poets) Carillon Records, 1961. Carillon: YP 312 2 s.: 33 1/3 rpm, microgroove; 12 in. New York: Decca, 1 965. 1 sound disc (38 min.): analog 33 1/3 rpm, mono; 12 in. Decca Records: Decca DL9135. Critical notes by Geoffrey Hartman on slipcase.
       See "Six Women Poets" in Easy Pieces, pp. 108-110.

• "Virginia's Web." Chicago Review (Spring 1961), 14(4): 20-32.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 71-84.

• "Methods and the Man." Poetry (August 1961), 98: 332-336. Verse.

• "Romanticism and `Anti-Self- Consciousness'." Centennial Review (Autumn 1962), 6(4): 553-565.

  • Reprinted in a revised and expanded form in Harold Bloom, ed., Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism, pp. 46-56. New York: Norton, 1970.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 298-310.

  • Reprinted in Robert F. Gleckner and Gerald E. Enscoe, eds., Romanticism: Points of View, pp. 287-297. 2d ed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975.

• "Maurice Blanchot: Philosopher-Novelist." Chicago Review (Autumn 1961), 15(2): 1-18. See "Maurice Blanchot" in John Cruickshank, ed., The Novelist as Philosopher, pp. 147-165. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 93-110.

• "Wordsworth's Descriptive Sketches and the Growth of the Poet's Mind." PMLA (December 1961), 76(5): 519-527.

  See Wordsworth's Poetry 1787-1814, pp. 102-115.

• "A Poet's Progress: Wordsworth and the Via Naturaliter Negativa." Modern Philology (February 1962), 59(3): 214-224.

  • Reprinted in Jonathan Wordsworth, M.H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill, eds., William Wordsworth, The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850: Authoritative Texts, Context and Reception, Recent Critical Essays, pp. 598-613. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1979.

• "A Short History Of." Chicago Review (Summer- Autumn 1962), 15(4): 122-123. Verse.

• " Tanges Tamen Aethra You Will Touch the Upper Air Nevertheless." Chicago Review (Summer- Autumn 1962), 15(4): 124. Verse.

• "Who Gives Food to All Flesh..." Chicago Review (Summer- Autumn 1962), 15(4): 125. Verse.

• "The Journey." Chicago Review (Summer- Autumn 1962), 15(4): 126. Verse.

• "Aubade." Chicago Review (Summer- Autumn 1962), 15(4): 126. Verse.

• "The Heroics of Realism." Yale Review (Autumn 1963), 53(1): 26-35.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 61-70.

• "Wordsworth, The Borderers, and `Intellectual Murder'." JEGP (October 1963), 62(4): 761-768.

• "Marvell, St. Paul, and the Body of Hope." ELH (June 1964), 31(2): 175-194.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 151-172.

• "Beyond Formalism." MLN (December 1966), 81(5): 542-556.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 42-57.

  • Reprinted in Gregory T. Polletta, ed., Issues in Contemporary Literary Criticism, pp. 161-172, 183-184. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

  • Reprinted in Richard Macksey, ed., Velocities of Change: Critical Essays from MLN, pp. 103117. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

• "Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century." Studies in English Literature, 1500- 1900 (Autumn 1966), 6(4): 753-782.

• "Structuralism: The Anglo-American Adventure." Yale French Studies (1966), 36-37: 148-168. Special issue on "Structuralism."

  • See "Structuralism: The Anglo-American Adventure" in Beyond Formalism, pp. 3-23.

  • Reprinted in Jacques Ehrmann, ed., Structuralism, pp. 137-158. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1970.

• "False Themes and Gentle Minds." Philological Quarterly (January 1968), 47(1): 55-68.
        This paper was one of a series on the topic "The Revival of Romance' read in the general session of the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 3, 1967.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 283-297.

• "`The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn': A Brief Allegory." Essays in Criticism (April 1968), 18(2): 113-135.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 173-192.

• "Instructions To A Movie-Maker (After Seeing Ulysses and Hearing Lady Dartmouth)." New Republic (December 21, 1968), 159(25-26) [2818]: 38-39. Verse.

• "Adam on the Grass with Balsamum." ELH (March 1969), 36(1):168-192.

  • Reprinted in William Zunder, ed., Paradise Lost, pp. 145-159. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 124-150.

• "The Voice of the Shuttle: Language from the Point of View of Literature." Review of Metaphysics (December 1969), 23(2) [90]: 240-258.
        This paper is based on a lecture delivered at Haverford College, May 1969.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 337-355.

  • Translated by Jacques Carré into French as "La Voix de la navette, ou le langage considéré du point de vue de la littérature." Poétique (1976), 28: 398-412.

• "Wordsworth." Yale Review (Summer 1969), 58(4): 507-525.

• "Sicilian Sketch." New Republic (November 29, 1969), 161(22) [2866]: 33. Verse.

• "Reflections on Romanticism in France." Studies in Romanticism (Fall 1970), 9(4): 233-248.

  • Reprinted in David Thorburn and Geoffrey Hartman, eds., Romanticism: Vistas, Instances, Continuities, pp. 38-61. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1973.

• "Toward Literary History." Daedalus (Spring 1970), 99(2): 355-383.

  • Reprinted in Beyond Formalism, pp. 356-386.

  • Reprinted in Morton W. Bloomfield, ed., In Search of Literary Theory, pp. 195-235. Studies in the Humanities. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1972.

  • Reprinted in Gregory T. Polletta, ed., Issues in Contemporary Literary Criticism, pp.753-775, 820-823. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

• "History-Writing as Answerable Style." New Literary History (Autumn 1970), 2(1): 73-83.
  Reprinted in The Fate of Reading, pp. 101-113.\

  • Reprinted in Ralph Cohen, ed., New Directions in Literary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

• "Theories on the Theory of Romanticism." Wordsworth Circle (Spring 1971), 2(2): 51-56.

• "Spring Offensive." Poetry (September 1972), 120(6): 330-331. Verse.

• "Mariner's Song." Yale Review (Winter 1972), 61(2): 253. Verse.

• "Sicilian Sketches." Poetry (February 1973), 121(5): 251-253. Verse.

• "A Winter Afternoon in New Haven." Poetry (February 1973), 121(5): 253-254. Verse.

• "Passage to Ithaca (1965)." Epoch (Winter 1973), 22(2): 202. Verse.

• "The Interpreter: A Self-Analysis." New Literary History (Winter 1973), 4(2): 213-227.

  • Reprinted in Ralph Cohen, ed., New Directions in Literary History, pp. 95-105. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1974.

  • Reprinted in The Fate of Reading, pp. 3-19.

• "Spectral Symbolism and the Authorial Self: An Approach to Keats's Hyperion." Essays in Criticism (January 1974), 24(1):1-19.
        An earler version of this paper was given as a Harry Camp lecture at Stanford University.

  • Reprinted in The Fate of Reading, pp. 57-73.

• "The Aesthetics of Complicity." Georgia Review (Fall 1974), 28(3): 384-388.

• "Christopher Smart's Magnificat: Toward a Theory of Representation." ELH (Fall 1974), 41(3): 429-454.

  • Reprinted in The Fate of Reading, pp. 74-98.

  • Reprinted in Ronald Paulson and Arnold Stein, eds., E.L.H. Essays for Earl R. Wasserman, pp. 139-164. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

• "To Maia." Georgia Review (Winter 1974), 28(4): 640. Verse.

• "The Middle of the Garden." Georgia Review (Winter 1974), 28(4): 640-641. Verse.

• "The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis: Riffaterre's Interpretation of Wordsworth 'Yew-Trees'." New Literary History (Autumn 1975), 7(1): 165-189.

• Response to Michael Riffaterre's "Interpretation and Descriptive Poetry: A Reading of Wordsworth's `Yew-Trees'." New Literary History (Winter 1973), 4(2): 229-256.

• "The Garden." Poetry (October 1975), 127(1): 33-34. Verse.

• "Monsieur Texte: On Jacques Derrida, His Glas." Georgia Review (Winter 1975), 29(4): 759-797.

  • Reprinted in Saving the Text, pp. 1-32.

  • Reprinted under the heading "Jacques Derrida" in Sharon R. Gunton, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 24, pp. 153-155. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1983.

• "Wordsworth and Goethe in Literary History." New Literary History (Winter 1975), 6(2): 393-413.

• "Monsieur Texte II: Epiphony in Echoland." Georgia Review (Spring 1976), 30(1): 168-204.

• "Crossing Over: Literary Commentary as Literature." Comparative Literature (Summer 1976), 28(3): 257276.

• "Introduction" to Maurice Blanchot, "Arret de mort: Death Sentence." (Translated by Lydia Davis) Georgia Review (1976), 30(2): 379-403.

• "Humanistic Study and the Social Sciences." College English (November 1976), 38(3): 219-223.
        Delivered at a Conference on Humanities and the Social Sciences, sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute in New York, January 31, 1975.

• "Literary Criticism and Its Discontents." Critical Inquiry (Winter 1976), 3(2): 203-220.
       See in "Works about Geoffrey Hartman" below Wallace Martin's "Literary Critics and Their Discontents: A Response to Geoffrey Hartman."

  • Reprinted in Saving the Text, pp. 33-66.

• "Nerval's Peristyle." Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Fall-Winter 1976-77), 5(1-2): 71-78.

  • Excerpts reprinted under the heading "Gérard de Nerval" in Laurie Lanzen Harris, ed., NineteenthCentury Literature Criticism, Volume 1, pp. 487-488. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1981.

• "The Malraux Mystery." New Republic (January 29, 1977), 176(5) [3238]: 27-30.

• "The Concept of Character in D.H. Lawrence's First Play." Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Spring 1977), 10(1): 38-43.

• "Between the Acts: Jeanne Moreau's Lumière." Georgia Review (Spring 1977), 31(1): 237-242.

  • Reprinted in Easy Pieces, pp. 8-12.

• "Reading Criticism." (Letter) PMLA (March 1977), 92(2): 307-308.
  Refers to Gary Nelson's "Reading Criticism." PMLA (October 1976), 91(5): 801-815.

• "A Touching Compulsion: Wordsworth and the Problem of Literary Representation." Georgia Review (Summer 1977), 31(2): 345-361.

• "The Recognition Scene of Criticism." Critical Inquiry (Winter 1977), 4(2): 407-416.
        Reply to Wallace Martin's "Literary Critics and Their Discontents: A Response to Geoffrey Hartman," in the same issue, pp. 397-406, which commented on Hartman's "Literary Criticism and Its Discontents."

• "Genius Loci." Poetry (December 1977), 131(3): 138-140. Verse.

• "Blessing the Torrent: On Wordsworth's Later Style." PMLA (March 1978), 93(2): 196-204.

  • Excerpted in Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1981), 11: 386-387.

• "Wordsworth's Later Style." [Letter] PMLA (January 1979), 94(1):140-141.
        Refers to Spencer Hall's "Wordsworth's Later Style." [Letter] PMLA (January 1979), 94(1):139-140, which commented on Hartman's "Blessing the Torrent: On Wordsworth's Later Style."

• "Centaur: Remarks on the Psychology of the Critic." Salmagundi (Winter 1979), 43: 130-139.

• "Hermeneutic Hesitation." Novel (Winter 1979), 12(2): 102-107.

• "A Short History of Practical Criticism." New Literary History (Spring 1979), 10(3): 495-509.

• "Communication, Language, and the Humanities." ADE Bulletin (Winter 1981), 70: 10-16.

• "How Creative Should Literary Criticism Be?" New York Times Book Review (April 5, 1981): 11, 24-25.

• "Representation Now." Annals of Scholarship (1981), 2: 4-15.

• "Literature as a Profession II: The Creative Function of Criticism." Humanities (National Endowment for the Humanities publication) (December 1981), 2(6): 8-9.

• "The Meaning and Demeaning of the Holocaust. Symposium." Moment (March-April 1981), 6: 32ff.

• "Plenty of Nothing: Hitchcock's North by Northwest." Yale Review (Autumn 1981), 71(1): 13-27.

• "Words," "A Voice," "Moon Shot." River Styx (1982), 11: 13-15. Verse.

• "The Response to Terror: Introductory Notes." Human Rights Quarterly (1983), 5: 113-115.

• "The Interpreter's Freud." Raritan (1984), 4(2): 12-28.

• "Paul de Man's Proverbs of Hell." London Review of Books (March 15-April 4, 1984), 6(5): 8-10.

• "The Culture of Criticism." PMLA (May 1984), 99(3):371-397.
       See Minor Prophecies, pp. 17-56.

• "`Timely Utterance' Once More." Genre (Spring-Summer 1984), 17(1-2): 37-49.

  • Reprinted in Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer, eds., Rhetoric and Form: Deconstruction at Yale, pp. 37-49. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

• "The Dubious Charm of M. Truffaut." Partisan Review (1984-85), 51(4) & 52(1): 823-825.

• "In Memoriam: Paul de Man." Yale French Studies (1985), 69:6-8.
        Preceded by the note: "The Following Tributes Were Offered at the Memorial Service for Paul de Man Held at the Yale University Art Gallery on January 18, 1984."

• "Meaning, Error, Text." Yale French Studies (1985), 69:145-149.

  • Reprinted in Peter Brooks, Shoshana Felman and J. Hillis Miller, eds., The Lesson of Paul de Man, pp. 145-149. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
         See alsoMinor Prophecies, pp. 149-154.

• "Preserving the Personal Story: The Role of Video Documentation." Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies (1985), 1: 11-14.

• "The Advanced Study of Literature: Elementary Considerations." ADE Bulletin (Spring 1985), 80:11-14.
        See "Advanced Literary Studies" in Minor Prophecies, pp. 155-163.

• "The Age of the Ghostwriter." Harper's Magazine (September 1985), 271(1624): 33-34.
        Excerpt from Easy Pieces.

• "On the Jewish Imagination." Prooftexts (September 1985), 5(3): 201-220.

  • Reprinted as "Imagination" in Arthur A. Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr, eds., Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought: Original Essays on Critical Concepts, Movements, and Beliefs, pp. 451-472. New York: Scribner, 1987.

• "The Eight Day." Orim: A Jewish Journal at Yale (Autumn 1985), 1: 34. Verse.

• "Reflections on a Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies." University of Hartford Studies in Literature (1986), 18(2-3): 36-40.

• "Reading: In Memory of Paul Celan." University of Hartford Studies in Literature (1986), 18(2-3): 63. Verse. Part of "In the Shadow: Three Poems."

• "A Vision of Judgement." University of Hartford Studies in Literature (1986), 18(2-3): 63-64. Verse. Part of "In the Shadow: Three Poems."

• "New Year." University of Hartford Studies in Literature (1986), 18(2-3): 64-65. Verse. Part of "In the Shadow: Three Poems."

• "The War Against Memory." Orim (Spring 1986), 1(2): 27-33.

• "Theory and Critical Style: From Common to Uncommon Reader." Revue Internationale de Philosophie (1987), 41(162-163): 398-413.
       This essay was first given as a lecture at the University of California at Berkeley on the Beckmann Professorship.
       See "From Common to Uncommon Reader" in Minor Prophecies, pp. 74-89.

• "Two Poems: Martin Buber." Orim (Spring 1987), 7), 2(2). Translation and annotation.

• "Judaic Studies as the Third Pillar." Congress Monthly (May-June 1987): 7-9.

• "History and Judgment: The Case of Paul de Man." History and Memory (1988), 1:55-84.
       See "Judging Paul de Man" in Minor Prophecies, pp. 123-148.

• "Blindness and Insight: Paul de Man, Fascism, and Deconstruction." New Republic (March 7, 1988), 198(10): 26-31.

• "Religious Literacy." Conservative Judaism (Summer 1988), 40(4): 26-34.

• "The Influence of Anxiety." Village Voice (September 13, 1988), 33(37), VLS [Village Voice Supplement] (October 1988), 68:S14-S15.
       A section of VLS entitled "Where Do We Go From Here? 17 Critics Read Between the Lines."

• "Criticism and Restitution." Tikkun (January-February 1989), 4(1): 29-32.

  • Reprinted in Michael Lerner, ed., Tikkun, pp. 188-192. Oakland, Calif.: Tikkun Books, 1992. See "The Philomela Project" in Minor Prophecies, pp. 164-175.

• "The Longest Shadow." (In Memory of Dorothy de Rothschild) Yale Review (Spring 1989), 78(3):485-496.

  • Reprinted in David Rosenberg, ed., Testimony: Contemporary Writers Make the Holocaust Personal, pp. 425-439. New York: Times Books/Random House, 1989.

• "Who is an Educated Jew?" Tel Aviv Review (Fall 1989/Winter 1990), 2: 17-188.
  Delivered at the final conference of the President's Circle on Jewish Education, Jersualem, December 1987.

• "The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies: Yale University." Social Education (February 1991), 55(2): 120. In Special Section: Teaching about Genocide.

• "Response." Yale Journal of Criticism (Spring 1992), 5(2):220-225.
       Response to Alasdair MacIntyre's "What Has Not Happened in Moral Philosophy," pp. 193-199, and Martha Nussbaum's "Emotions as Judgments of Value," pp. 201-212 in the same issue.

• "Higher Education in the 1990s." New Literary History (Fall 1993), 24(4):721-743.

• "Public Memory and Modern Experience." Yale Journal of Criticism (Fall 1993), 6(2):239-247.

• "Sanctification." Western Humanities Review (Winter 1993), 47(4):353-355.
       Verse.

• "Is an Aesthetic Ethos Possible? Night Thoughts after Auschwitz." Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature (Fall-Winter 1994), 6(2):135-155.

• "Curfew."Paris Review (Summer 1994), 131:153-154.
       Verse.

• "Homecoming."Paris Review (Summer 1994), 131:155-157.
       Verse.

• "Midrash As Law and Literature." Journal of Religion (July 1994), 74(3):338-355.

• "Night Thoughts East."Paris Review (Summer 1994), 131:152-153.
       Verse.

• "Public Memory and Its Discontents." Raritan (Spring 1994), 13(4):24-40.

  • Reprinted in Marshall Brown, ed., The Uses of Literary History, pp. 73-91. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

• "Reading and Representation: Wordsworth's 'Boy of Winander'." European Romantic Review (Summer 1994), 5(1):90-100.

• "Words."Paris Review (Summer 1994), 131:154-155.
       Verse.

• "The Cinema Animal: On Spielberg's `Schindler's List'." Salmagundi (Spring-Summer 1995), 106:127-145.

• "Learning from Survivors: The Yale Testimony Project." Holocaust & Genocide (Fall 1995), 9(2):192-207.

• "Reading and Representation: Wordsworth's 'Boy of Winander'." Tikkun (November-December 1995), 10(6):54-55.

• "On Traumatic Knowledge and Literary Studies." New Literary History (September 1995), 26(3):537-563.

• "The Blind Side of the Akedah." Raritan (Summer 1996), 16(1):28-39.

• "`Breaking with Every Star': On Literary Knowledge." Comparative Criticism (1996), 18:3-20.
       This essay was given in January 1996 as the first Peter Szondi Lecture.

• "The Fate of Reading Once More." PMLA (May 1996), 111(3):383-389.

• "The Reinvention of Hate." Yale Review (July 1996), 84(3):1-11.

• "Shakespeare and the Ethical Question: Leo Lowenthal 'In Memoriam'." ELH (Spring 1996), 63(1):1-23.

• "Three Poems." Jerusalem Review (1997/8), 2.

• "Zeitalter der Zeugenschaft." Frankfurter Allgemeine (September 1998).

• "Shoa and Intellectual Witness." Partisan Review (Winter 1998), 65(1):37-48.

  • Translated as "Der Intellektuelle Zeuge" in Menorah Jahrbuch 1998.

  • Retranslated as "Der Intellektuelle Zeuge" in Uli Bear, ed., Wer zeugt für den Zeuge. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2000.

• "Benjamin in Hope." Critical Inquiry (Winter 1999), 25(2):344-352.

  Part of a special section entitled "Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin," based on a conference held at Yale University, September 26-27, 1997.

  "Survivor Testimony: Challenge and Limits." International Journal: Studies on the Audio-Visual Testimony of Victims of the Nazi Crimes and Genocides (1999), 3:169-173.

  Aesthetizid..." Frankfurter Rundschau (November 27, 1999):ZB3.

  "Aesthetic Sensibilities." Tikkun (January 2000), 15(1):55+.

  "Memory.com: Tele-Suffering and Testimony in the Dot Com Era." Raritan (Winter 2000), 19(3): 1-18.

  • Reprinted in Barbie Zelizer, ed., Visual Culture and the Holocaust, pp. 111-127. Rutgers Depth of Field Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press; London: Athlone, 2001.

  "Holocaust Videography, Oral History, and Education." Tikkun (May 2001), 16(3):51-53.

  "How to Recapture Selective Memories." Partisan Review (Winter 2001), 68(1):91-93.