9780801848889 : reading-george-steiner-scott-sharp

Paperback / softback

304 Pages

$32.00 USD

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	March 1, 1994
ISBN-13	9780801848889
Language	English
Pages	304
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.9375 Pounds (US)
Unit weight	.94 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$32.00 USD, £23.50 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Reading George Steiner

Name: Reading George Steiner
Price: 32.00 USD
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ISBN: 9780801848889

Edited by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. and Ronald A. Sharp

The Johns Hopkins University Press

George Steiner's accomplishments in criticism, in theory of literature, and in the history of ideas have made him a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. He is widely known for his frequent contributions to the New Yorker and TLS as he is fro his many books. In Reading George Steiner Nathan Scott and Ronald Sharp bring together a group of eminent American and European critics to offer the first major assessment of Steiner's work.

About the Authors

Nathan A. Scott Jr. is William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Virginia. Amobng his many books are Samuel Beckett; The Wild Prayer of Longing; Poetry and the Sacred; The Poetics of Belief; and Visions of Presence in Modern American Poetry. Ronald A. Sharp is John Crowe Ransom Professor of English at Kenyon College and former editor of The Kenyon Review. His books include Keats, Skepticism, and the Religion of Beauty; Friendship and Literature: Spirit and Form; and (with Eudora Welty) The Norton Book of Freindship.

Reviews

"The collection is a model of editorial acuity, the essays persuasive and eloquent, ensuring that by the end almost every aspect of the Steiner oeuvre has been mentioned, if not discussed."—Dan Gunn, Times Literary Supplement

"No critic, no man of letters in our time, has surpassed the scope, seriousness, verbal virtuosity—truly, he is the Guest of Language—and sheer vivacity of mind of George Steiner. The various, supple, often subtle, essays of this volume do critical honor to Steiner, his fierce poetics of meaning, his shocking deed of semantic trust. And unlike so much contemporary criticism, they all share a tact of the heart."—Ihab Hassan.

Publisher	The Johns Hopkins University Press
BISAC Subject Headings	LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory (394 Titles) HISTORY / Social History (165 Titles)
BIC Subject Headings	Literary theory (385 Titles) History of ideas (4 Titles)

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	March 1, 1994
ISBN-13	9780801848889
Language	English
Pages	304
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.9375 Pounds (US)
Unit weight	.94 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$32.00 USD, £23.50 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference