The End of the Line

Discusses Longinus, Wordsworth, Flaubert, Freud, political hysteria, Kant, George Eliot, and the relationship between students and teachers

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hertz, Neil

Psychology & Counseling

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

George Eliot's Pulse

Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of one of her early letters, for her "not simply to be, but to utter." Pursuing oddities of diction and figuration, of plotting and characterization, Hertz finds everywhere in Eliot's works passages of high mimetic realism that ask to be read as allegories of writing or as characters whose actions and destinies can only be understood if they are seen as disguised surrogates of their author. Each essay begins with an intriguing or problematic bit of language, then moves about within a particular work of fiction or criss-cross to other writings of Eliot's as well as to works by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.

Reference

Stanford University Press

Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of one of her early letters, for her "not simply to be, but to utter." Pursuing oddities of diction and figuration, of plotting and characterization, Hertz finds everywhere in Eliot's works passages of high mimetic realism that ask to be read as allegories of writing or as characters whose actions and destinies can only be understood if they are seen as disguised surrogates of their author. Each essay begins with an intriguing or problematic bit of language, then moves about within a particular work of fiction or criss-cross to other writings of Eliot's as well as to works by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.

For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization does little to take into account the myriad motivations that have shaped it in ways that make it seem intractable, from powerful nationalist and theological ideologies to the more practical concerns of the people who live there and just want to carry out their lives without the constant threat of war. In 2011, Neil Hertz lived in Ramallah in Palestine’s occupied West Bank and taught in Abu Dis, just outside Jerusalem. With Pastoral in Palestine, he offers a personal take on the conflict. Though the situation has resulted in the erosion of both societies, Hertz could find no one in either Israel or Palestine who expressed much hope for a solution. Instead, they are resigned to find ways to live with the situation. Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs taken by the author, Pastoral in Palestine puts a human face to politics in the Middle East.

Pastoral in Palestine (Paradigm, 43)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Prickly Paradigm Press

First published in 1985, The End of the Line brought together a series of essays tracing the notion of the sublime from Longinus’s inaugural treatise through its later exemplifications in eighteenth-century and Romantic writing (Kant, Wordsworth) and its inflections in works of nineteenth-century fiction (Flaubert, George Eliot) to its reappearance as “the uncanny” in Freud’s writings. In this new edition, Neil Hertz has added two more recent essays, one on Descartes and Samuel Johnson, the other on Paul de Man’s engagement with the criticism of William Empson.

The Davies Group, Publishers

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The End of the Line

The End of the Line

George Eliot's Pulse

George Eliot's Pulse

Pastoral in Palestine (Paradigm, 43)

The End of the Line