Geoffrey Hartman’s interests range over almost the entire field of contemporary literature and culture. In this, the first Reader of his work, significant essays cover topics such as: English and American poetry; Freud, Lacan and Derrida; Popular literature; Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Bernard Malamud; Major trends in criticism, since I.A. Richards; Film criticism; Holocaust survivors; This anthology is both highly readable and, because of its range and intellectual vigour, essential for all those concerned with the fate of the humanities and the survival of reading as an interpretive art.