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: 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: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman.
1967, Atheneum
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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.

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Includes index.

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Atheneum (Series) -- 158.

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xiv, 426 p. ;
Number of pages
426

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OL14650271M
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