Geoffrey H. Hartman Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today. Yale University Press, 1980. First printing. 0300020856 xi/323 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in light gray cloth, with stamped red lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket, in mylar cover, displays sunning to spine panel, with minor loss of material at top. "The ten chapters of this book (seven of which are published here for the first time) proceed by interweaving the close reading of critical texts (by Carlyle, Eliot, Bloom, Derrida, Benjamin, Frye, Burke, among others) with the close reading of literary works (by Kleist, Yeats, Wordsworth, Williams, Dickinson, and Baudelaire). Three appendixes take up in a more polemical manner several issues confronting the profession today. Written throughout with a general intellectual audience in mind, this eloquent book will have a lasting impact on literary and cultural criticism."