Steiner, George
Steiner, George ( Francis George Steiner ) ( 1929 – ),American critic and author, born in Paris, and educated at the Sorbonne, the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford. His critical works include Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism ( 1959 ); The Death of Tragedy ( 1961 ); Language and Silence ( 1967 ); In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes towards the Re-definition of Culture ( 1971 ); and After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation ( 1975 ). Steiner's criticism is wide-ranging and multicultural in its references and controversial in its content: one of his recurrent themes is the way in which the 20th-cent. experiences of totalitarianism and world war, and, more specifically, of the Holocaust, have destroyed the assumption (self-evident, he claims, to Dr Johnson , Coleridge , and M. Arnold ) that literature is a humanizing influence. Silence is the...
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