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Grammars of Creation

By George , Steiner

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Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2013
ISBN
9781480411869, 1480411868
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1708205 bytes)
Pages
401\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Beginning -- Miscellanea. Creation -- Miscellanea.

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"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. 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

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