Grammars of Creation: Originating In The Gifford Lectures For 1990
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- Synopsis
- "A fresh, revelatory, golden eagle's eye-view of western literature." --Financial TimesEarly in Grammars of Creation, George Steiner references Plato's maxim that in "all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent." Creation, he argues, is linguistically fundamental in theology, philosophy, art, music, literature--central, in fact, to our very humanity. Since the Holocaust, however, art has shown a tendency to linger on endings--on sundown instead of sunrise. Asserting that every use of the future tense of the verb "to be" is a negation of mortality, Steiner draws on everything from world wars and the Nazis to religion and the word of God to demonstrate how our grammar reveals our perceptions, reflections, and experiences. His study shows the twentieth century to be largely a failed one, but also offers a glimpse of hope for Western civilization, a new light peeking just over the horizon.
- Copyright:
- 2001
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781480411869
- Publisher:
- Open Road Media
- Date of Addition:
- 06/21/20
- Copyrighted By:
- George Steiner
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.