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Language and Silence Author: George Steiner Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House Original title: Language and Silence
Language and Silence Author: George Steiner Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House Original title: Language and Silence
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Introduction · · · · · ·
◆The greatest mind in the literary world today, the classic masterpiece of George Steiner, a contemporary master of humanistic criticism
◆The most thorough modern apocalypse, the most expansive humanistic vision
The book's theme - a profound reflection on political brutality - is extremely contemporary
The review of literature has both historical sense and realistic concern
It can be said to be a classic work that can guide us to rediscover ourselves and the times.
◆Recommended by famous scholar Leo Ou-fan Lee
This book is George Steiner's masterpiece and a classic work of Western humanistic criticism in the 20th century. Its core topics are language, literary criticism and humanism (and anti-humanism). The articles collected were written in different periods, but they all share a fundamental theme - the life of language. In Steiner's view, language is the representative of culture. However, several inhumane countercurrents in the modern West (especially the Nazis) have led to the abuse and pollution of language and culture, causing the creation of Western literature to fall into "silence". Therefore, after experiencing various catastrophes, where should language and the related real world go? What responsibilities should critics and intellectuals bear in this process?
About the Author · · · · · ·
George Steiner (1929 - ), a famous American literary critic and translation theorist, is an outstanding contemporary humanist intellectual. He is proficient in the languages and cultures of several countries, including English, French, and German. He teaches at famous universities such as Oxford and Harvard. He mainly studies the relationship between language, literature, and society and the impact of the Holocaust during World War II. He is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has won many awards, including the Knight Medal of the French Government's Legion of Honor and the Alfonso Reyes International Award. His representative works include "Language and Silence", "The Death of Tragedy", and "After Babel".
The translator, Li Xiaojun, is a professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University. He has written Freedom and Irony and The Sea of Faith, and translated Vera, Nabokov’s Biography, Socrates and Aristophanes, Melville’s Political Philosophy, Under Western Eyes, In America, Chariot Races in Ancient Rome, Heartbreak, and Nietzsche’s Mission.
Table of contents · · · · · ·
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Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron
A Survivor - Dedicated to Elie Wiesel
Postscript: Classic Homer and Scholars: The Bible
400 Years of Shakespeare: Two Translations by Master FR LEAVIS
Orpheus and His Mythology: Levi-Strauss, Marshall McLuhan's Novels and Today's Mérimée, Thomas Mann's Felix Krull
Lawrence Durrell and Baroque Novels Construct a Monument "Death is an Art"
Marxism and Literature Marxism and Literary Criticism Georg Lukacs and His Devil's Contract Aesthetic Manifesto Beyond Central Europe Writers and Communism Trotsky and Tragedy Imagination Literature and Later History - In Memory of Georg Lukacs Translation Postscript
