biography
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Steiner, (Francis) George
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pronunciation:
[stiyner]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Critic and scholar, born in Paris, France. He studied there and at Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford universities. He worked at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1956–8), then taught at Cambridge, where he became a fellow of Churchill College in 1969. He was appointed professor of English and comparative literature at Geneva (1974–94, now emeritus), and at Oxford (1994–5), where he became a fellow of St Anne's College. One of the leading exponents of comparative literature, his publications include The Death of Tragedy (1961), Language and Silence (1967), After Babel (1975), and Antigones (1984). Real Presences (1989) challenges the demoralizing consequences of deconstructive thought. Later books include Proofs and Three Parables (1992) and The Deeps of the Sea and Other Fiction (1996), and a memoir, Errata: an examined life (1998). |
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