Books written by Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Getting It Right: Language, Literature, and Ethics

Geoffrey Galt Harpham, whose previous book, The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism, was one of the first to announce the critical renewal of ethics, attempts in this new book to explain why ethical questions resist settlement.
The Character of Criticism

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The Humanities and the Dream of America

The contents of this book cover beneath and beyond the 'crisis in the humanities', between humanity and the homeland, gold mines in Parnassus, melancholy in the midst of abundance, and much more.
Scholarship and Freedom

Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that scholars play a unique role in liberal society, manifesting in refined form the freedoms it guarantees and demanding that it make good on those same guarantees.
The Character of Criticism

In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful and effective criticism demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sensibility, a way of being in the world; it demands, in other words, to be read as a discourse ...
Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture

Each of these works sought to make a statement about American identity in the form of a narrative, and each included in that narrative a prominent role for Black people.
The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism

In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics.
The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism

Although Scheja and most others seem to presume that the work ” begins and ends with the paintings of Grünewald , this presumption would have been foreign to both Grünewald and his contemporaries , who , the evidence suggests , regarded ...
The Humanities and the Dream of America

Framed by essays that draw on Harpham’s pedagogical experiences abroad and as a lecturer at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as his vantage as director of the National Humanities Center, this book provides an essential perspective on ...
文学术语词典

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A Glossary of Literary Terms

This text defines and discusses terms, critical theories, and points of view that are commonly used to classify, analyse, interpret, and write the history of works of literature.
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?: The American Revolution in Education

Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s book takes its title from a telling anecdote.
Scholarship and Freedom

Scholarship and Freedom threads its general arguments through examinations of the careers of three scholars: W. E. B. Du Bois, who serves as an example of scholarly character formation; South African Bernard Lategan, whose New Testament ...
Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society

... beyond formalism " in a quest Hartman acknowledges to be hopeless , a quest to achieve a di- rect intuition of reality . The critical recognition of the limits of formalism merely accedes to this fact about literature and tries to find ...