Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Books

• On the Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature. 2nd ed. with new preface. This work was the primary inspiration for “Domus Aurea,” a composition by Edmund Campion for piano and vibraphone, which premiered at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, November 4, 2000.
• The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism.
• Getting It Right: Language, Literature, and Ethics. Partially translated into Croatian as Pripovjedni Imperative, in Politika ietika pripovijedanja, ed. Vladimir Biti, 129-56.
• One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad.
• Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society.
• Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity.
• A Glossary of Literary Terms, 8th ed., coauthored with M.H. Abrams ; 9th ed.. Translated into Persian, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Greek. Indian edition, 2009.
• The Character of Criticism.
• On Being Human, special issue of Daedalus, 138.3, consulting editor. This issue grew out of the “Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human and the Humanities” initiative sponsored by the National Humanities Center, 2006-09.
• The Humanities and the Dream of America.

  Critical studies and reviews of Harpham's work

• Review of What do you think, Mr. Ramirez?.