In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture"Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times (from the French Revolution) and the conceivable culture of times to come. Mr. Steiner's discussion of the break with the traditional literary past (Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Latin) is illuminating and attractively undogmatic. He writes as a man sharing ideas, and his original notions, though scarcely cheerful, have the bracing effect that first-rate thinking always has." -New Yorker "In Bluebeard's Castle is a brief and brilliant book. An intellectual tour de force, it is also a book that should generate a profound excitement and promote a profound unease...like the great culturalists of the past. Steiner uses a dense and plural learning to assess his topic: his book has the outstanding quality of being not simply a reflection on culture, but an embodiment of certain contemporary resources within it. The result is one of the most important books I have read for a very long time."--New Society |
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| Title | In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture A Yale paperbound ; Y-262 History / Literature T.S. Eliot memorial lectures Volume 262 of YALE PAPERBOUND Volume 262 of Yale paperbound. History/Literature |
| Author | George Steiner |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0300017103, 9780300017106 |
| Length | 141 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General |
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