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 readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. Taking issue with the principal emphasis of modern linguistics, he finds the root of the "Babel problem" in our deep instinct for privacy and territory, noting that every people has in its language a unique body of shared secrecy.  With this provocative thesis he analyzes every aspect of translation from fundamental conditions of interpretation to the most intricate of linguistic constructions.  For the long-awaited second edition, Steiner entirely revised the text, added new and expanded notes, and wrote a new preface setting the work in the present context of hermeneutics, poetics, and translation studies.  This new edition brings the bibliography up to the present with substantially updated references, including much Russian and Eastern European material.  Like the towering figures of Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault, Steiner's work is central to current literary thought. After Babel, Third Edition is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the debates raging in the academy today.

After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

Reference

GEORGE STEINER

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Oxford University Press

Linguistics. A very good softcover copy. Some cover fading; price marked out on back. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. NOT ex-library. Indexed. 507pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Linguistics; ISBN: 0192811894. ISBN/EAN: 9780192811899. Inventory No: 016504.

After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Oxford Paperbacks)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press, USA

Steiner's brilliant and elegant new book draws on episodes from his life, to explore the central themes and ideas of his thinking and writing over the course of much of our troubled century. An exploration of the ideas of the life of a major and brilliant thinker, the closest we will get to an autobiography.

Errata : An Examined Life

Yale University Press

“Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times (from the French Revolution) and the conceivable culture of times to come.  Mr. Steiner’s discussion of the break with the traditional literary past (Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Latin) is illuminating and attractively undogmatic.  He writes as a man sharing ideas, and his original notions, though scarcely cheerful, have the bracing effect that first-rate thinking always has.” –New Yorker“In Bluebeard’s Castle is a brief and brilliant book.  An intellectual tour de force, it is also a book that should generate a profound excitement and promote a profound unease…like the great culturalists of the past.  Steiner uses a dense and plural learning to assess his topic: his book has the outstanding quality of being not simply a reflection on culture, but an embodiment of certain contemporary resources within it.  The result is one of the most important books I have read for a very long time.”―New Society

In Bluebeard's castle;: Some notes towards the redefinition of culture (The T. S. Eliot memorial lectures)

History

World

“Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times (from the French Revolution) and the conceivable culture of times to come. Mr. Steiner’s discussion of the break with the traditional literary past (Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Latin) is illuminating and attractively undogmatic. He writes as a man sharing ideas, and his original notions, though scarcely cheerful, have the bracing effect that first-rate thinking always has.” –New Yorker “In Bluebeard’s Castle is a brief and brilliant book. An intellectual tour de force, it is also a book that should generate a profound excitement and promote a profound unease…like the great culturalists of the past. Steiner uses a dense and plural learning to assess his topic: his book has the outstanding quality of being not simply a reflection on culture, but an embodiment of certain contemporary resources within it. The result is one of the most important books I have read for a very long time.”―New Society

In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

"This book is important―and portentous―for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start controversy. . . . The very passion and insight with which he writes about the tragedies that have moved him prove that the vision still lives and that words can still enlighten and reveal."―R.B. Sewall, New York Times Book Review
"A remarkable achievement. . . . The knowledge is marshalled here with the skill and authority of a great general, and from it a large strategic argument emerges with clarity and force. . . . A brilliantly thoughtful and eloquent book which deserves to be read with the greatest attention and respect."―Philip Toynbee, The Observer
"As brilliant, thorough, and concerned a contemplation of the nature of dramatic art as has appeared in many years."―Richard Gilman, Commonweal
"A rich and illuminating study, full of intelligence and sensibility."―Times Literary Supplement (London)
"His merits are shining and full of the capacity to give both delight and illumination. . . . His style is throughout vigorous, sensitive, and altogether worthy of its subject."―Harold Hobson, Christian Science Monitor
"Immensely useful and [a book] to be reckoned with by everyone working in this field."―Raymond Williams, The Guardian

The Death of Tragedy

"When Steiner deals with transactions between languages . . . as in discussion of various English versions of the Bible or Robert Lowell`s translation of Racine, we see a keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves."-Robert Gorham Davis, New York Times Book Review "An extraordinarily sharp, brilliant, and thoughtful discussion of the strange conditions into which modern writing has worked itself. . . . Few, very few writers today have as much that is worthwhile to say on today`s writing as does the author."-Joseph G. Harrison, Christian Science Monitor "Whoever has valued and needed this book for its insights into some one particular matter . . . will upon rereading discover the astounding breadth of attention in [it]: from Homer to Thomas Mann, from Marshall McLuhan to The Warsaw Diary of Chaim Kaplan. In each of these essays, a single sentence, and often more than one, can endlessly provoke and illuminate thought."-John Felstiner How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.

Language and Silence

Essays & Correspondence

Yale Univ Pr

Language and Silence : Essays and Notes, 1958-66

Faber&Faber

The Death of Tragedy (The Faber Library)

Faber and Faber

A collection of stories which span intimacy and politics, violence and calm. The settings include the depths of the Pacific and the Amazonian forests, the Poland of the death camps, and Italy after the collapse of Marxism.

The deeps of the sea and other fiction

Literary

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