Representation and Authenticity of Testimonial Literature: Geoffrey Hartman on Holocaust Studies by Feng WANG

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Preface to FORUM Issue 12: Authenticity by Tim Milnes

“…Among these, Lionel Trilling, whose 1971 study Sincerity and Authenticity remains essential reading, worries that ‘authenticity,’ like ‘irony’ and ‘love,’ is ‘one of those words [...] which are best not talked about if they are to retain any force of meaning [...]’ (120). More recently, Geoffrey Hartman has conceded that ‘“Spirit” and “authenticity” are word concepts that cannot be saved from their own pathos. …”
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Wordsworth's negative way by Clarkson, O

“…‘Wordsworth carries his delight in negatives to the point of tiresome mannerisms’, John Jones grumbled.1 Geoffrey Hartman once blamed ‘a negative’ for Wordsworth’s ‘wavering rhythm’; Roger Sharrock thought there were ‘too many’ of them; Kenneth Johnston has spoken of Wordsworth’s ‘bothersome double negatives’; and for Carey McIntosh, more recently, they can ‘seem verbose’.2 Such complaints are understandable. …”