Essays, though broad in scope, focus upon the validity of language in a decaying culture

The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century

Product Description: Lectures.

Product Description: Eight essays by George Steiner.

One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. This is a critical study of the theme of tragedy in literature, from the Greeks to Samuel Beckett.

Eight essays by the literary critic probe the history and formal structure of inward speech as well as the relationship between linguistics and poetics and between language and literature

Product Description: Book by Steiner, George, Lawrence, Patricia A.

Thirty years after World War II, in the depths of an Amazonian swamp, a crack team of young Israeli Nazi hunters come upon a grizzled and ravaged but alive Adolf Hitler and carry him back to civilization

Thirty years after World War II, in the depths of an Amazonian swamp, a crack team of young Israeli Nazi hunters come upon a grizzled and ravaged but alive Adolph Hitler and carry him back to civilization

Essays examine the nature of literary criticism, language, culture, Tolstoy, Racine, Heidegger, and treason

Looks at the way the Greek myth has been presented in drama, poetry, opera, ballet, film, and art and examines how the story of Antigone embodies the basic conflict between individuals and the state

Product Description: An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism.

Looks at the way the Greek myth has been presented in drama, poetry, opera, ballet, film, and art and examines how the story of Antigone embodies the basic conflict between individuals and the state

Product Description: Three outstanding stories on the theme of war. The three stories bundled in this book are tales about war and love, about “memories keeping their cancerous hold.”

Product Description: Nearly a million Jews were consumed by the ovens of Treblinka before August 2, 1943. On that day 600 prisoners armed with stolen guns and grenades attacked the Nazi guards, burned the camp, and fled into the nearby Polish forests...read more

With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. (view table of contents)

Provides information on where to stay and eat, what to do and see, combined with comments and advice on the city and its attractions

Product Description: This collection of short stories includes "Proofs", a literary thriller which explores the conflict between fact and fiction in life and literature. Also included are "Noel, Noel", "Desert Island Disks" and "Conversation Piece".

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. (view table of contents)

Product Description: George Steiner seeks to define the spirit and methods of comparative literary studies, providing a sketch of their origins and history, together with a personal statement as to the possible future of the field. The range and implications of this project focus both on Oxford and beyond...read more

George Steiner-one of the preeminent essayists and literary thinkers of our era-here addresses issues of language and the relation of language to literature and to religion. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Homer, Shakespeare, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Simone Weil to Jewish scripture, religious tradition, and the effects of the Holocaust. At a time when the art of reading and the status of text are threatened, Steiner affirms the primacy of reading in the classical sense.