Geoffrey Hartman, Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today

Eddie Yeghiayan

• Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1980.
  Contents:

  • Introduction:1-15.
    
• Part I:17- 158
  1. Understanding Criticism:19-41
     
  2. The Sacred Jungle 1: Carlyle, Eliot, Bloom:42-62.
     
  3. The Sacred Jungle 2: Walter Benjamin:63-85.
     
  4. The Sacred Jungle 3: Frye, Burke, and Some Conclusions:86- 114.
     
  5. Purification and Danger 1: American Poetry:115-132.
     
  6. Purification and Danger 2: Critical Style:133-157.
     
  Part II:159-250
  1. The Work of Rea ding:161-188.
     
  2. Literary Commentary as Literature:189-213.
     
  3. Centaur: On the Psychology of the Critic:214-225.
     
  4. Past and Present:226-249.
     
  5. Coda: Polemical Pieces:251-301
     
  6. The Recognition Scene of Criticism:253-264.
     
  7. Criticism, Indeterminacy, Irony:265-283.
     
  8. A Short History of Practical Criticism:284-301.

• #1-7 have not been published earlier in any form.

• Paperback, 1982.

• #2 reprinted as "Enthusiastic Criticism" in Harold Bloom, ed., Thomas Carlyle, pp. 121 121-125. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

• #8 reprinted in Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle, eds., Critical Theory Since 1965, pp. 345-358. Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida/Florida State University Press, 1986 .

• #7 reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present, Volume 10: Contemporary, pp. 555-574. New York & Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 19 90.