ISBN: 9780300074710
    
  
  
  
    
      作者:
    
    
      
        
        George Steiner
      
    
  
  
    
      出版社: Yale University Press
    
  
  
    
      发行时间: 1998
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    语言:
    
      
        
        英语
      
    
  
  
    
      装订: Paperback
    
  
  
    
      价格: USD 42.00
    
  
  
    
      页数: 440
    
  
  
          
          
          
        Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman
George Steiner
简介
How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.