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George Steiner George Steiner (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva and Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

George Steiner par George Steiner (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva and Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

Résumé

This volume offers a rich sampling of George Steiner's writing, including essays from his seminal books After Babel, The Death of Tragedy, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, Language and Science, and Antigones. It also includes excerpts from his novel, The Portage of San Cristobel of A.H., and a reprint of The Cleric of Treason, on the British spy scandal surrounding Sir Anthony Blunt.

George Steiner Résumé

George Steiner: A Reader George Steiner (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva and Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

As an incisive and provocative critic of literature, language, and culture, George Steiner has acquired an international reputation and a devoted following. He scatters bright ideas everywhere, writes The New York Times Book Review, and they are sure to be picked up. This volume presents a rich sampling of Steiner's ideas, including selections from his seminal books The Death of Tragedy, After Babel, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, and Language and Science. Aside from pointing to work that lies ahead, this anthology offers a rich retrospective of the intellectual ground Steiner has already covered. Whether discussing Marxist literary theory, the significance of Tolstoy, or the problems of treating sexual material in literature, Steiner's writings give us the pleasure of watching an astute and nimble mind constantly at work.

George Steiner Avis

[Steiner] is a remarkably powerful writer, as essays like 'The Hollow Miracle' and 'Postscript'...attest....[Here] he offers passionate, dexterous, erudite arguments.-The Christian Science Monitor
George Steiner is arguably the most influential cultural mediator writing in English today. Through his essays he has exposed readers...to the latest news from the intellectual and literary fronts of Europe, in a style that is at once lucid and eloquent.-World Literature Today
A plenteous feast-various and served up with intelligence and style...An intelligent, deeply felt humanism characterizes Steiner's work; a tradition of intelligence and style lives in this prolific man.-Los Angeles Times
Steiner is a phenomenon. Reading him over the years, and now in portable form, I'm struck with the energy and, at is best, the relentless concentration of his thought.-Edward W. Said, The Nation
No one now writing on literature can match [Steiner] as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing....[He] has commented with fine perceptiveness on a dizzying range of literary texts and cultural issues.-Robert Alter, The Washington Post Book World
Steiner's style is by turns richly allusive, metaphoric, intensely concerned, prophetic, apocalyptic-and almost always captivating.-The National Review
[Steiner is] in a class above most critics.-The Hudson Review

À propos de George Steiner (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva and Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

About the Author: George Steiner is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and honorary doctorates.

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CIN0195050681G
9780195050684
0195050681
George Steiner: A Reader George Steiner (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva and Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)
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Oxford University Press Inc
1987-05-28
450
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