Ebook: Grammars of Creation
Author: Steiner George
- Tags: Beginning -- Miscellanea. Creation -- Miscellanea. Creative ability -- Miscellanea. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. Beginning. Creation. Creative ability.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Open Road Media
- City: Newburyport
- Language: English
- epub
"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 Read more...
Abstract: "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 fr