316 results for 'steiner grain'

An education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine. Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces...

Steiner, George (Literaturwissenschafter).

From the distinguished polymath George Steiner comes a profound vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language. With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner...

How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals an...

"We have no more beginnings", George Steiner begins in this, his most radical book to date. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history,...

"Opening with the re-working of an opera she wrote entitled Lady Loathly as a kind of parable for feminist criticism, the author of The Scandal of Pleasure and Venus in Exile here re-evaluates both...

Ne pratiquant pas l'hébreu et se préoccupant de poétique de la traduction, G. Steiner montre que la Bible relève par essence de la traduction : elle se veut traduction de la parole de Dieu. Ce texte...

Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She argues that documentary culture (including charters,...

«Este libro es importante, pues si es cierto que la tragedia ha muerto, nos hallamos ante una pérdida cultural vital. No cabe duda de que provocará polémica. La pasión y la perspicacia con que...

When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided...

"This book examines the far-reaching legacy of one of the great myths of classical antiquity. According to Greek legend, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the...

Longtemps, nous avons cru que le progrès de la morale allait de pair avec le développement de la culture. Le nazisme, montre George Steiner a pulvérisé cette illusion : Buchenwald n'est situé qu'à...

An illuminating account of the development of Durkheim's economic sociologyÉmile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this...

In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and...

Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria’s Secret and America’s Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Facebook and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the pose, the state of existing...

At the end of a century whose catastrophic violence has damaged irreparably the human capacity for hope, the advance of scientific knowledge has so deepened our understanding of the origins of life...

Para Steiner la «revolución lingüística» producida desde la última década del siglo XIX ha tenido como consecuencia un cambio de actitud radical no sólo en la filosofía, la lógica, la teoría social y...

Covering material as diverse as curse tablets, coins, tattoos, and legal decrees, Deborah Steiner explores the reception of writing in archaic and classical Greece. She moves beyond questions...

«La literatura i la filosofia, tal com les hem conegudes, són productes del llenguatge. De manera inalterable, aquest és el seu terreny ontològic i substantiu comú. El pensament en la poesia i la...