An edition of Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman. (1967)

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An edition of Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman. (1967)

Language and silence

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Atheneum
Language
English
Pages
426

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Subjects

Literature, Philosophy, History and criticism, Addresses, essays, lectures, Taal, Langage et langues, Langage et culture, Critique, Literature, history and criticism, Literature, philosophy, Language and languages, philosophy

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George Steiner (1929-2020)
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Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman
1998, Yale University Press
in English - Yale University Press pbk. ed.
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Language and Silence
May 27, 1985, Faber and Faber
Paperback - 2Rev Ed edition
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Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman
1976, Atheneum
in English
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Language and silence: essays on language,literature, and the inhuman
1972, Atheneum
in English
Cover of: Language and silence
Language and silence: essays on languagE, literature and the inhuman.
1970, Atheneum
in English
Cover of: Language and silence
Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman.
1970, Atheneum
in English
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Language and silence: essays, 1958-1966
1969, Penguin
in English - Abridged ed.
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Language and silence
1969, Penguin
in English
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Language and silence: essays in language, literature, and the inhuman
1967, Faber and Faber
in English
Cover of: Language and silence
Language and silence: essays 1958-1966.
1967, Faber
in English
Cover of: Language and silence
Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman
1967, Atheneum
in English
Cover of: Language and silence
Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman.
1967, Atheneum
in English - [1st ed.]
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Cover of: Language and silence
Language and silence: essays in language, literature, and the inhuman
1967, Atheneum
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Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman.
1967, Faber & Faber
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Table of Contents

Humane literacy
The retreat from the word
Silence and the poet
To civilize our gentlemen
Night words
The Pythagorean genre
The hollow miracle
A note on Gu nter Grass
K
Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron
A kind of survivor
Postscript
Homer and the scholars
The book
Shakespeare: four hundredth
Two translations
F.R. Leavis
Orpheus with his myths: Claude Le vi-Strauss
On reading Marshall McLuhan
Me rime e
Thomas Mann's Felix Krull
Lawrence Durrell and the baroque novel
Building a monument
Dying is an art
Marxism and the literary critic
Georg Luka cs and his devil's pact
An aesthetic manifesto
Out of central Europe
The writer and communism
Trotsky and the tragic imagination
Literature and post-history.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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Series
Atheneum (Series) -- 158.

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Pagination
xiv, 426 p. ;
Number of pages
426

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OL14650271M
Internet Archive
languagesilenceg0000unse
OCLC/WorldCat
1420342

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