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About this book
The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of
After Babel. "A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves" (
The New York Times Book Review).
Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have passed out of an era of verbal primacy and into one of post-linguistic forms—or partial silence. Steiner explores the idea of the abandonment of contemporary literary criticism, from the classics to the works of William Shakespeare, Lawrence Durell, Thomas Mann, Leon Trotsky, and more.
Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have passed out of an era of verbal primacy and into one of post-linguistic forms—or partial silence. Steiner explores the idea of the abandonment of contemporary literary criticism, from the classics to the works of William Shakespeare, Lawrence Durell, Thomas Mann, Leon Trotsky, and more.
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Topic
PhilosophyINDEX
Abel, Niels Henrik, 14
Absalom and Achitophel (Dryden), 62
“Abstammungsnachweis” zum “Zuchtwart,” Vom (Berning), 95 n
Act Without Words (Beckett), 52
Adamov, Arthur, 139; quoted, 51–52
Adams, Henry, 244, 254, 256; The Education of Henry Adams, 244
Adenauer, Konrad, 114, 115
Adorno, Theodor W., 147, 149, 344, 350; on Auschwitz, 53; on Benjamin, 314; on chamber music, 385–86; on Heine, 125, 151, 354–55; Marxism and, 310, 315, 341, 349; on Schoenberg, 127 n, 129, 132, 139; Quasi una fantasia, 127 n; “Sakrales Fragment: Ueber Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron,” 127 n
Advertising, 26, 77, 251, 361, 384
Aegean Sea, 174–75
Aelfric, Archbishop of Canterbury, 188
Aeschylus, 6, 134, 305, 391; The Libation Bearers, 134; Seven Against Thebes, 366; The Suppliants, 391
Aesop, 268
Aesthetics: art reproducibility and, 314–15, 341, 385; dehumanization and, 9–10, 61, 166, 202; ideology and, 305–06, 307, 308, 310, 311, 315, 317–18, 319, 323, 328–29, 337, 352, 356–57, 360, 362, 363, 382; improvisation and, 385; Leavis and, 223, 226; linear perception and, 253—55, 382; Lukács on, 340–47; musical dominance in, 29–30, 43–46; new forms and, 86–91, 103, 131–32, 136–37, 173, 253, 383, 385, 387, 390, 391–92; personal death and, 386; science and, 16, 18, 21–24, 25, 68, 253, 326–27; silence and, 12, 22–24, 34, 48–49; of tragedy, 390–91, 392. See also Criticism
Africa, 47, 181, 182, 240, 385; anti-Semitism in, 140, 143, 145; English of, 60; nationalism in, 152
Aïda (Verdi), 137
Alamein, El, 101
Albouy, Pierre, Victor Hugo, 314
Alchemy, 15
Aldred, 188
Alexandria, Egypt, 70, 283, 284
Alexandria Quartet (Durrell), 280–87, 326, 353
Algebra, 14, 21
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 71
“All the Dead Dears” (Plath), 296
Amazon basin, In...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- HUMANE LITERACY
- LANGUAGE OUT OF DARKNESS
- CLASSICS
- MASTERS
- FICTIONS AND THE PRESENT
- MARXISM AND LITERATURE
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright Page