George Steiner
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George Steiner, prominent literary critic, was born on April 23, 1929 in Paris to Viennese parents. After moving to America in 1940 with his family, he attended the universities of Paris and Chicago, followed by Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. He was appointed a Fellow at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study at the young age of 27. Steiner has taught at Cambridge University since 1961, and he has served as visiting professor at numerous other distinguished institutions.
His field is comparative literature. His work as a critic has tended toward exploring, often with great insight, cultural and philosophical issues of enduring interest, in contrast to what some regard as the nihilistic or narrowly political directions taken by much contemporary literary criticism. His work has heavily influenced intellectual discourse on popular culture and scholarly popular culture studies.
Works
- Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in Contrast (1960)
- The Death of Tragedy (1961)
- Anno Domini: Three Stories (1964)
- The Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation (1966)
- Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
- In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture (1971)
- Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution (1972)
- The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Reykjavik (1973)
- After Babel: Aspect of Language and Translation (1975)
- Why English? (1975)
- Has Truth a Future? (1978)
- Heidegger (1978)
- On Difficulty and Other Essays (1978)
- The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. (1981)
- Antigones (1984)
- George Steiner: A Reader (1984)
- A Reading Against Shakespeare (1986)
- Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say? (1989)
- Proofs and Three Parables (1992)
- What is Comparative Literature? (1995)
- Homer in English (1996)
- No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1996 (1996)
- The Deeps of the Sea, and Other Fiction (1996)
- Errata: An Examined Life (1997)
- Grammars of Creation (2001)
- Lessons of the Masters (2004)
- Nostalgia for the Absolute (2004)
- Paroles et silence (2004)
- Une idée de l'Europe (2005)
- Dix raisons (possibles) à la tristesse de la pensée (bilingual, 2005)de:George Steiner