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Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
George Steiner'sTolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian …
Real Presences
Real Presences argues that any understanding of the nature of language is based on the assumption of God's presence, and discusses the influence of this on literary criticism.
DEATH OF TRAGEDY
'This book is important-and portentous-for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start controversy. . . . The very passion …
NO PASSION SPENT
This is an extraordinary collection of essays by one of this country's most exciting and dramatic thinkers.The essays span a considerable time. But they turn on a central, …
Language and Silence
No Passion Spent
Originally published in 1996, a collection of essays which examine the Bible, Homer and Shakespeare in the light of what is meant by reading a serious text at a time when theories …
Grammars of Creation
At the end of a century whose catastrophic violence has irreparably damaged the human capacity for hope, our knowledge of the origins of life has so deepened that we can create …
Language and Silence
How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been manipulated to circumvent the truth at high levels or charged with vulgarity and imprecision by mass-consumer …
Grammars of Creation
Are great works of art, literature and music 'creations' or 'inventions'? Does the mathematician 'invent' or 'discover'? Exploring an often neglected field, this book asks whether …
In Bluebeards Castle
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
This critical analysis of the two great masters of the Russian novel provides detailed plot summaries of the authors' works and draws on references to Homer, Shakespeare, Flaubert, …