Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization after Auschwitz, Catherine D. Chatterley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011), xii + 186 pp., hardcover 24.95
In this extended essay of 134 pages (not including endnotes and other back matter) Catherine D. Chatterley traces a thematic leitmotif in the work of George Steiner, one of the most popular and controversial literary critics of our age. Over the course of his long career, Steiner has established him...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 537-539 |
| Review of: | Disenchantment (Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2011) (Strote, Noah)
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| Summary: | In this extended essay of 134 pages (not including endnotes and other back matter) Catherine D. Chatterley traces a thematic leitmotif in the work of George Steiner, one of the most popular and controversial literary critics of our age. Over the course of his long career, Steiner has established himself as a formidable interpreter of what is generally considered the traditional Western cultural canon, from the Hebrew Bible and the Greek tragedies to the present. Instead of writing a complete intellectual biography, Chatterley aims to reconstruct what she believes to be the animating theme of Steiner's work: the question of the relationship between the Western canon and the Holocaust. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu056 |