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Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust . [6]
Apr 22, 2024 · George Steiner, influential French-born American literary critic who studied the relationship between literature and society, particularly in light of modern history. His writings on language and the Holocaust reached a wide, nonacademic audience. Learn more about Steiner’s life and career.
Feb 3, 2020 · George Steiner, a literary polymath and man of letters whose voluminous criticism often dealt with the paradox of literature’s moral power and its impotence in the face of an event like the...
Oct 14, 2022 · George Steiner : a reader. by. Steiner, George, 1929-2020. Publication date. 1984. Topics. Steiner, George, 1929-, Philology, Philosophy, Philosophie, Philologie, philology, philosophy, Literatur, Aufsatzsammlung, Kulturkritik. Publisher. New York : Oxford University Press.
George Steiner is experienced as a writer in many forms, but he is best known as a piercingly intelligent and shamelessly intellectual critic and essayist.
Feb 5, 2020 · Adam Gopnik writes about the critic George Steiner, who has died, about about the impact of his intellectual work in the academy and in the popular press.
Feb 3, 2020 · Literary critic and essayist George Steiner has died in the UK, aged 90. The French-US scholar passed away in Cambridge, where he had spent half a century as an Extraordinary Fellow at...
Feb 3, 2020 · NEW YORK (AP) — George Steiner, who became one of the world’s leading public intellectuals through his uncommon erudition, multilingual perspective and the provocative lessons he drew from his Jewish roots and escape from the Holocaust, died Monday.
Feb 4, 2020 · George Steiner, who has died aged 90, was an academic agent provocateur widely admired as the polymath champion of European high culture.
Feb 7, 2020 · George Steiner was one of the most brilliant minds and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. A multilingual literary critic, essayist, fiction writer and scholar, his passionate lectures and...
