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  | | What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?(1st Edition) The American Revolution in Education by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48081-7, ISBN: 0-226-48081-X "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, said Ramirez, changed his life because “it was the first time a ..." |
 | | Scholarship and Freedom (Hardcover) by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Harvard University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-674-24501-3, ISBN: 0-674-24501-6 "A. D. Nuttall says, “I fancy that it would take little labour to show that high scholarship is compatible with prejudice and bigotry carried to extremes”; Nuttall, Dead from the Waist Down, 199. Du Bois, Autobiography, 104. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Novick ..." |
 | | The Humanities and the Dream of America by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31699-4, ISBN: 0-226-31699-8 "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 Americans since the first days of the Republic for a state so sec ..." |
 | | Language Alone(1st Edition) The Critical Fetish of Modernity by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-94219-5, ISBN: 0-415-94219-5 "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 referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what the ..." |
 | | One of Us(1st Edition) The Mastery of Joseph Conrad by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31696-3, ISBN: 0-226-31696-3 "The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master—master mariner, storyteller, and writer—his reputation has been linked in recent years to the negative masteries of racism, imperialism, and patriarchy.In this book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham delves not only into Conr ..." |
 | | Getting It Right(1st Edition) Language, Literature, and Ethics by Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Edward J. Harpham Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31693-2, ISBN: 0-226-31693-9 "In a critical scene deeply troubled by questions of justice and responsibility, and beset by political and moral scandals, no issue in recent years has been more urgent or more unsettled than the question of 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 ..." |
 | | The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism(Updated) by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31692-5, ISBN: 0-226-31692-0 "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, Grunewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpha ..." |
 | | On the Grotesque Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by The Davies Group Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-888570-85-4, ISBN: 1-888570-85-7 "In this comprehensive, original, and wide-ranging study, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that we should view the grotesque not as a marginal or aberrant form, but rather as a key to central concepts in the Western artistic tradition. With discussions of pictorial and narrative art, and readings of theoretical statements by Kant, Hegel, Ruskin and others, this book expands our concept of the grotesque, and enriches our understanding of art ..." |
 | | What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? The American Revolution in Education by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48078-7, ISBN: 0-226-48078-X "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, said Ramirez, changed his life because “it was the first time a ..." |
 | | Shadows of Ethics Criticism and the Just Society by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1999 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2300-6, ISBN: 0-8223-2300-1 "In this volume Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues for a deeply original view of the relations among ethics, literary study, and critical theory. In thirteen lucid, provocative and often witty essays, Harpham rejects both the optimism of those who see ethics as a way of solving problems about values or principles and the pessimism of those who regard ethics as primarily a cover story for politics. Ethics, he claims, has been seen by its most p ..." |
 | | A Glossary of Literary Terms(9th Edition) by Meyer Howard Abrams, Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 393 Pages, Published 2008 by Cengage Learning ISBN-13: 978-1-4130-3390-8, ISBN: 1-4130-3390-3 "First published fifty years ago, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS remains an essential text for all serious students of literature. Now fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship on recent and rapidly evolving critical theories, the ninth edition contains a complete glossary of essential literary terms presented as a series of engaging essays that explore the terms, place them in context, and suggest related entries and additional read ..." |
 | | A Glossary of Literary Terms(11th Edition) by M.H. Abrams, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Abrams /. Harpham Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2014 by Cengage Learning International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-285-46506-7, ISBN: 1-285-46506-7 "First published over fifty years ago, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS remains an essential resource for all serious students of literature. Now fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship on recent and rapidly evolving critical theories, the new contains a complete glossary of essential literary terms presented as a series of engaging, beautifully crafted, essays that explore the terms, place them in context, and suggest related entrie ..." |
 | | The Humanities and the Dream of America (Hardback) by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31697-0, ISBN: 0-226-31697-1 |
 | | The Character of Criticism(1st Edition) by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-97133-1, ISBN: 0-415-97133-0 "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 sensibility, a way of being in the world; it demands, in other ..." |
 | | A Glossary of Literary Terms(Intl. Edition) (Ise) by Meyer H.: Abrams, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Harpham Abrams Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005 by Thomson Wadsworth ISBN-13: 978-1-4130-0456-4, ISBN: 1-4130-0456-3 "First published in 1957, "A Glossary of Literary Terms" contains succinct essays on the terms used in discussing literature, literary history, and literary criticism. This text is an indispensable reference for students." |
 | | Shadows of Ethics; Criticism and the Just Society by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1999 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2320-4, ISBN: 0-8223-2320-6 "In this volume Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues for a deeply original view of the relations among ethics, literary study, and critical theory. In thirteen lucid, provocative and often witty essays, Harpham rejects both the optimism of those who see ethics as a way of solving problems about values or principles and the pessimism of those who regard ethics as primarily a cover story for politics. Ethics, he claims, has been seen by its most ..." |
 | | The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Hardcover, 325 Pages, Published 1988 by Univ Of Chicago Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31691-8, ISBN: 0-226-31691-2 "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 thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpha ..." |
 | | Citizenship on Catfish Row Race and Nation in American Popular Culture by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Hardcover, Published 2022 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64336-327-1, ISBN: 1-64336-327-1 |
 | | Language Alone The Critical Fetish of Modernity by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Digital, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-73425-2, ISBN: 1-134-73425-5 "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 referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what the ..." |
 | | A Glossary of Literary Terms(9th Edition) by M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey Galt Harpham Paperback, Published 2009 by Wadsworth ISBN-13: 978-1-4130-3392-2, ISBN: 1-4130-3392-X "First published fifty years ago, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS remains an essential text for all serious students of literature. Now fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship on recent and rapidly evolving critical theories, the ninth edition contains a complete glossary of essential literary terms presented as a series of engaging essays that explore the terms, place them in context, and suggest related entries and additional read ..." |
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