Language and silence : essays on language, literature, and the inhuman / George Steiner.
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New York :
Atheneum,
1976.
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| Edition: | College edition. |
| Series: | Atheneum paperbacks
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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 Günter 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 Lévi-Strauss
- On reading Marshall McLuhan.
- Mérimée
- Thomas Mann's Felix Krull
- Lawrence Durrell and the Baroque novel
- Building a monument
- "Dying is an art"
- Marxism and the literary critic
- Georg Lukács 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.