No Passion Spent (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: George Steiner
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Essays; literary and religious criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, Intellectuals, Literature, Religion, Books, Reading, Popular culture, Judaism
George Steiner is one of the most widely read critics of literature and culture at large in the English-speaking world. He has written for both specialized academic readers and the more general though largely intellectual audiences reached by The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New Yorker. He has taught literature at such distinguished institutions as the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Geneva in Switzerland, Cambridge University, and Oxford University. Steiner has both lived and espoused comparative...
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