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The Resource George Steiner at the New Yorker, edited, and with an introduction by Robert Boyers

George Steiner at the New Yorker, edited, and with an introduction by Robert Boyers

Label
George Steiner at the New Yorker
Title
George Steiner at the New Yorker
Statement of responsibility
edited, and with an introduction by Robert Boyers
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DLC
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1929-2020
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Steiner, George
Dewey number
814/.54
Index
index present
LC call number
PR6069.T417
LC item number
G46 2009
Literary form
essays
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Boyers, Robert
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
English essays
Label
George Steiner at the New Yorker, edited, and with an introduction by Robert Boyers
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Essays
  • "A New Directions book."
  • "New Directions paperback original (NDP1129)"--T.p. verso
Bar code
  • 31223087125366
  • 31223087125374
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
History & politics. "The cleric of treason" : on Anthony Blunt ; "Wien, Wien, nur du allein" : on Webern & Vienna ; "De profundis" : on Solzhenitsyn's gulag ; "God's spies" : on Graham Greene ; "From the House of the Dead" : on Albert Speer ; "De mortuis" : on Aries & new French history -- Writers and writing. "One thousand years of solitude" : on Salvatore Satta ; "Killing time" : on George Orwell's 1984 ; "Black Danube" " on Karl Kraus & Thomas Bernhard ; "B.B." : on Bertolt Brecht ; "Uneasy rider: " on Robert M. Pirsig ; "Rare bird" : on Guy Davenport ; "Dead letters" " on John Barth ; "Tigers in the mirror" : on Jorge Luis Borges ; "Of nuance and scruple" : on Samuel Beckett ; "Under Eastern eyes" : on Alexander Solzhenitsyn & other Russians ; "Cat man" : on Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Thinkers. "The friend of a friend" : on Walter Benjamin & Gershom Scholem ; "Bad Friday" : on Simone Weil ; "The lost garden" : on Claude Lévi-Strauss ; "Short shrift" : on E.M. Cioran ; "Ancient glittering eyes" : on Bertrand Russell ; "A tale of three cities" : on Elias Canetti ; "La morte d'Arthur" : on Arthur Koestler ; "The tongues of man" : on Noam Chomsky -- Life studies. "A death of kings" : on chess ; "Give the word" : on James Murray & the OED ; "An examined life" : on Robert Hutchins & the University of Chicago -- Appendix. All George Steiner's essays in The New Yorker
Dimensions
20 cm
Extent
344 p.
Isbn
9780811217040
Isbn Type
(pbk. : acid-free paper)
Lccn
2008047188
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • 227016269
  • (OCoLC)227016269
Label
George Steiner at the New Yorker, edited, and with an introduction by Robert Boyers
Publication
Note
  • Essays
  • "A New Directions book."
  • "New Directions paperback original (NDP1129)"--T.p. verso
Bar code
  • 31223087125366
  • 31223087125374
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
History & politics. "The cleric of treason" : on Anthony Blunt ; "Wien, Wien, nur du allein" : on Webern & Vienna ; "De profundis" : on Solzhenitsyn's gulag ; "God's spies" : on Graham Greene ; "From the House of the Dead" : on Albert Speer ; "De mortuis" : on Aries & new French history -- Writers and writing. "One thousand years of solitude" : on Salvatore Satta ; "Killing time" : on George Orwell's 1984 ; "Black Danube" " on Karl Kraus & Thomas Bernhard ; "B.B." : on Bertolt Brecht ; "Uneasy rider: " on Robert M. Pirsig ; "Rare bird" : on Guy Davenport ; "Dead letters" " on John Barth ; "Tigers in the mirror" : on Jorge Luis Borges ; "Of nuance and scruple" : on Samuel Beckett ; "Under Eastern eyes" : on Alexander Solzhenitsyn & other Russians ; "Cat man" : on Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Thinkers. "The friend of a friend" : on Walter Benjamin & Gershom Scholem ; "Bad Friday" : on Simone Weil ; "The lost garden" : on Claude Lévi-Strauss ; "Short shrift" : on E.M. Cioran ; "Ancient glittering eyes" : on Bertrand Russell ; "A tale of three cities" : on Elias Canetti ; "La morte d'Arthur" : on Arthur Koestler ; "The tongues of man" : on Noam Chomsky -- Life studies. "A death of kings" : on chess ; "Give the word" : on James Murray & the OED ; "An examined life" : on Robert Hutchins & the University of Chicago -- Appendix. All George Steiner's essays in The New Yorker
Dimensions
20 cm
Extent
344 p.
Isbn
9780811217040
Isbn Type
(pbk. : acid-free paper)
Lccn
2008047188
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • 227016269
  • (OCoLC)227016269

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