Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Open Road Media, 2013
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (426 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781480411890 MWT11549260, 1480411892 11549260
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A collection of essays and articles about the life of language, and its role in a world where words are used to manipulate as often as they are used to convey meaning 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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