The Death of Tragedy - Couverture souple

Steiner, Professor George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 057105658X ISBN 13 : 9780571056583

Editeur : Faber and Faber, 1974

Synopsis

Steiner, George. The Death of Tragedy. London, Faber and Faber, 1963. 13,5 cm x 21,5 cm. VIII, 354, XII. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Loosely inserted are several very interesting newspaper - clippings, related to George Steiner. Francis George Steiner, FBA (born April 23, 1929) is a French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in The Guardian described Steiner as a polyglot and polymath, saying that he is either often credited with recasting the role of the critic, or a pretentious namedropper whose range comes at the price of inaccuracy and complacency. Among his admirers, Steiner is ranked among the great minds in today's literary world. English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a late, late, late Renaissance man ... a European metaphysician with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time. Harriet Harvey-Wood, a former literature director of the British Council, described him as a magnificent lecturer - prophetic and doom-laden [who would] turn up with half a page of scribbled notes, and never refer to them. Steiner was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva (1974-94), Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow at the University of Oxford (1994-95) and Professor of Poetry at Harvard University (2001-02). He lives in Cambridge, England, where he has been Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge since 1969. He is married to author and historian Zara Shakow Steiner; they have a son, David Steiner (who served as New York State's Commissioner of Education from 2009 to 2011) and a daughter, Deborah Steiner (Professor of Classics at Columbia University). (Wikipedia).

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in Paris in 1929, George Steiner was educated in France, the USA and Britain. After a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol, he joined the editorial staff of The Economist in 1952. In 1956 he was elected a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. There he wrote Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky (1960) and began The Death of Tragedy (1961). In 1964 he published Anno Domini, a book of three novellas dealing with the aftermath of the Second World War. Language and Silence was published in 1967. His other work includes Proofs and Three Parables, which Faber published in 1992.George Steiner lives in Cambridge, where he has been Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College since 1969. He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He has been awarded the Commandeur dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1994 he became the first Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date d'édition: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 057105658X
• ISBN 13: 9780571056583
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible