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Availability:In StockContributor:George SteinerPublish date:1991-04-23Pages:246
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226772349ISBN-10:226772349UPC:9780226772349Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCRR48GSM7
Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication.

"A real tour de force. . . . All the virtues of the author's astounding intelligence and compelling rhetoric are evident from the first sentence onward."-Anthony C. Yu, Journal of Religion
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226772349ISBN-10:226772349UPC:9780226772349Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCRR48GSM7
George Steiner has written a great many books during his long and distinguished career as a literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He was professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow of St Anne's College at Oxford University, and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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George Steiner

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