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  • THE CHARACTER OF CRITICISM
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    THE CHARACTER OF CRITICISM
    GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM
    Why are some critical texts more compelling, memorable, or engaging than others? Can criticism be judged as a discourse of description, explanation, and analysis alone, or do our evaluations reflect other kinds of investments in it? In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the most powerful and effective criticism demands to be read as an expression of a distinctive sens...

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  • LANGUAGE ALONE
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    LANGUAGE ALONE
    GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM
    How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary theory have made progress by ref...

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  • WHAT DO YOU THINK, MR. RAMIREZ?
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    WHAT DO YOU THINK, MR. RAMIREZ?
    GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM
    Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one day, the professor asked him, “Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?” The question, sai...

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  • THE HUMANITIES AND THE DREAM OF AMERICA
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    THE HUMANITIES AND THE DREAM OF AMERICA
    GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM
    In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today’s humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrument of American national interests. The humanities portray a “dream of America” in two senses: they represent an aspiration of Ameri...

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  • THE ASCETIC IMPERATIVE IN CULTURE AND CRITICISM
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    THE ASCETIC IMPERATIVE IN CULTURE AND CRITICISM
    GEOFFREY GALT HARPHAM
    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. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as "the 'cultural' element in culture," and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other think...

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