Disenchantment - George Steiner and Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz

Informationen zum Autor Catherine D. Chatterley is the founding director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) and teaches modern European and Jewish history at the University of Manitoba. Klappentext Study of literary critic George Steiner and the focus of the Holocaust on his career Zusammenfassung Focuses on George Steiner’s neglected writings on the Holocaust and antisemitism and places this work at the centre of an analysis of his criticism. It clearly demonstrates how Steiner’s family history and education, as well as the historical and cultural developments that surrounded him, are central to the evolution of his dominant intellectual concerns.

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• Authors: Catherine Chatterley, Catherine D Chatterley, Catherine D. Chatterley
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9780815609605
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0960-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust; Religion, Theology and the Hol
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies