George Steiner's accomplishments in criticism, in theory of literature, and in the history of ideas have made him a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. He is as widely known for his frequent contributions to the "New Yorker" and "TLS" as he is for his many books. In "Reading George Steiner", Nathan Scott and Ronald Sharp bring together a group of eminent American and European critics to offer an assessment of Steiner's work. Approaching Steiner's writings in the wide range of fields that have engaged his attention over the past 35 years, the authors discuss topics from literary theory and criticism to language and culture, from religion and philosophy to Jewishness and the Holocaust. In the book's concluding chapter, Steiner himself offers a "Responsion" to the essays.
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The collection is a model of editorial acuity, the essays persuasive and eloquent, ensuring that by the end almost every aspect of the Steiner oeuvre has been mentioned, if not discussed. -- Dan Gunn * Times Literary Supplement *
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-8018-4832-2 (9780801848322)
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Nathan A. Scott Jr. is William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Virginia. Amobng his many books are Samuel Beckett; The Wild Prayer of Longing; Poetry and the Sacred; The Poetics of Belief; and Visions of Presence in Modern American Poetry. Ronald A. Sharp is John Crowe Ransom Professor of English at Kenyon College and former editor of The Kenyon Review. His books include Keats, Skepticism, and the Religion of Beauty; Friendship and Literature: Spirit and Form; and (with Eudora Welty) The Norton Book of Freindship.
