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Author Steiner, George, 1929-2020.

Title Language and silence; essays on language, literature, and the inhuman.

Publication Info. New York : Atheneum, 1967.

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 Moore Stacks  PN511 .S687    Available  ---
Edition [1st ed.]
Description xiv, 426 pages ; 25 cm
Contents [1.] Humane literacy: Humane literacy (1963) -- The retreat from the word (1961) -- Silence and the poet (1966) -- To civilize our gentlemen (1965) -- Night words (1965) -- The Pythagorean genre (1965) -- [2.] Language out of darkness: The hollow miracle (1959) -- A note on Günter Grass (1964) -- K (1963) -- Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron (1965) -- A kind of survivor (1965) -- Postscript (1966) -- [3.] Classics: Homer and the scholars (1962) -- The book (1961) -- Shakespeare -four hundredth (1964) -- Two translations (1961) -- [4.] Masters: F.R. Leavis (1962) -- Orpheus with his myths: Claude Lévi-Strauss (1965) -- On reading Marshall McLuhan (1963) -- [5.] Fictions and the present: Mérimée (1963) -- Thomas Mann's Felix Krull (1963) -- Lawrence Durrell and the baroque novel (1960) -- Building a monument (1964) -- "Dying is an art" (1965) -- [6.] Marxism and literature: Marxism and the literary critic (1958) -- Georg Lukács and his devil's pact (1960) -- An aesthetic manifesto (1964) -- Out of Central Europe (1964) -- The writer and communism (1961) -- Trotsky and the tragic imagination (1966) --Literature and post-history (1965)
Genre/Form Literature.
Literature.
Subject Literature -- Philosophy.
Literature -- Philosophy.