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Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman

10 best books like Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman (George Steiner): The Literary Guide to the Bible, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, Love and Death in the American Novel, Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005, Sincerity and Authenticity, Metaphor & Memory

The Literary Guide to the Bible
AuthorRobert Alter
ISBN0674875311
5. The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter & Frank Kermode
published: 1987
format: 672 page Hardcover
acquired: 2012
read: Jan 2012 – Nov 2015, June 2, 2018 - Jan 23, 2019
time reading: ~50 hr ~4.5 min/page
rating: 4

Contributors: J. P. Fokkelman,...
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
AuthorFrank Kermode
ISBN0195136128
s/t: With a New Epilogue
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach...
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
AuthorNorthrop Frye
ISBN0156027801
An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all other epics and sacred writings. “No one has set forth so clearly, so subtly, or with such cogent energy...
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN0374529272
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust,...
Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919
AuthorMarcel Proust
ISBN0786704543
Acknowledgment
Introduction, by Terence Kilmartin

Prologue
--Contre Sainte-Beuve

Miscellaneous Writings

Proust the Critic
--Against the young writers of the day
--On taste
--A history of French satire
--A Sunday concert at the Conservatoire
--Patriotism...
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
AuthorIsaiah Berlin
ISBN0691090262
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his...
Love and Death in the American Novel
AuthorLeslie A. Fiedler
ISBN1564781631
A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as “one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work.” This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and...
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
ISBN0670038652
A new collection of essays and literary criticism from Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, J. M. Coetzee is also a literary critic of the highest caliber. As Derek Attridge observes in his illuminating introduction,...
Sincerity and Authenticity
AuthorLionel Trilling
ISBN0674808614
"Now and then," writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the...
Metaphor & Memory
AuthorCynthia Ozick
ISBN0679734252
From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written...
The President of Good and Evil
AuthorPeter Singer
ISBN0452286220
Admittedly, my reading of The President of Good and Evil is a touch belated, but in many ways I am glad it is because I was able to appreciate Peter Singer's work more for what it does than who it is was written about.

Singer's discussion of the failure of Bush's ethics came as no surprise to me. Indeed,...
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
AuthorWalter Benjamin
ISBN1859844138
Walter Benjamin is widely acknowledged as amongst the greatest literary critics of this century, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama is his most sustained and original work. Indeed, Georg Lukacs—one of the most trenchant opponents of Benjamin’s aesthetics—singled out this work as one of...
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
AuthorErnst Robert Curtius
ISBN0691018995
In this "magnificant book" (T.S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe, with particular emphasis on the Latin Middle Ages. In an extensive new epilogue, drawing on hitherto...
The Conscience of Words
AuthorElias Canetti
ISBN0374518815
Ooit las ik met zeer veel bewondering diverse essays uit "Het geweten in woorden". Nu echter las ik de hele bundel integraal, en ik ben volkomen flabbergasted.

In dit boek verzamelde Canetti zijn vaak beeldschone essays over door hem aanstekelijk bewonderde schrijvers als Kafka, Karl Kraus,...
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 1: Language
AuthorErnst Cassirer
ISBN0300000375
The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer’s works.  Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science—the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself...
Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
AuthorDaniel Klaidman
ISBN0547547897
Is Barack Obama an idealist or a ruthless pragmatist? He vowed to close Guantánamo, put an end to coercive interrogation and military tribunals, and restore American principles of justice, yet in his first term he has backtracked on each of these promises, ramping up the secret war of drone strikes...
The Syrian Rebellion
AuthorFouad Ajami
ISBN0817915044
Fouad Ajami offers a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria. Focusing on the similarities and differences in skills between former dictator Hafez al-Assad and his successor son, Bashar, Ajami explains how an irresistible force clashed with an immovable object: the regime...
The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke In The World
AuthorDerek Chollet
ISBN1610390784
Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe, and as ambassador to both Germany...
Das kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen
AuthorJan Assmann
ISBN3406568440
Βιβλίο σταθμός στην επιστήμη της αρχαιογνωσίας, με εθνολογικές, ανθρωπολογικές και κοινωνιολογικές αναφορές και κύριο θέμα την πολιτισμική μνήμη...
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
AuthorUmberto Eco
ISBN0521425549
Umberto Eco, international best-selling novelist and leading literary theorist, here brings together these two roles in a provocative discussion of the vexed question of literary interpretation. The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to...
The Space of Literature
AuthorMaurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers—among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness. The Space of...
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
AuthorMichael Parenti
ISBN0312020139
If you‘re thinking about reading Chomsky‘s ‚Manufacturing Consent‘, read this instead - it‘s written on the same subject, 2 years earlier, and by someone far more knowledgeable.
Honestly, Parentis writing style ist phenomenal. He argues really concisely, anticipating every counterargument,...
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