George Steiner at The New Yorker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George Steiner at The New Yorker write by George Steiner. This book was released on 2009-01-30. George Steiner at The New Yorker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "George Steiner at The New Yorker collects fifty-three of his fascinating and wide-ranging essays from the more than one hundred and thirty he has contributed to the magazine. Steiner possesses a famously dazzling mind: paganism, the Dutch Renaissance, children's games, wartime Britain, and chivalry attract his interest as much as Levi-Strauss, Bernhard, Kafka, Beckett, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, and art historian/spy Anthony Blunt. Steiner makes an ideal guide, from the Risorgimento in Italy to the literature of the Gulag, from the history of chess to the enduring importance of Borges. Again and again in his New Yorker essays everything Steiner looks at is made to bristle with possibility, with the genuine prospect of becoming fresh and thrilling." --Book Jacket.
My Unwritten Books
My Unwritten Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Unwritten Books write by George Steiner. This book was released on 2008. My Unwritten Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the worlds foremost literary critics meditates upon seven books he long had in mind to write but never did. Massively erudite, the essays are also brave, unflinching, and wholly personal.
The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.
The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. write by George Steiner. This book was released on 1999. The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this profound and disturbing exploration of the nature of guilt and vengeance and the power of evil, Israeli Nazi-hunters, 30 years after the end of World War II, find a silent old man deep in the Amazon jungle who turns out to be Adolf Hitler.
After Babel
After Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Babel write by George Steiner. This book was released on 1976. After Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. Taking issue with the principal emphasis of modern linguistics, he finds the root of the "Babel problem" in our deep instinct for privacy and territory, noting that every people has in its language a unique body of shared secrecy. With this provocative thesis he analyzes every aspect of translation from fundamental conditions of interpretation to the most intricate of linguistic constructions.For the long-awaited second edition, Steiner entirely revised the text, added new and expanded notes, and wrote a new preface setting the work in the present context of hermeneutics, poetics, and translation studies. This new edition brings the bibliography up to the present with substantially updated references, including much Russian and Eastern European material. Like the towering figures of Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault, Steiner's work is central to current literary thought. After Babel, Third Edition is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the debates raging in the academy today.
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fin-De-Siecle Vienna write by Carl E. Schorske. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Fin-De-Siecle Vienna available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek
