La morte della tragedia

And it may well be the untranslatable poet who strikes nearest the genius of his own tongue. Steiner gives us a vast feat of erudition , he dazzles us with a sinuous thesis and then leaves us with a reading list. Manfred , Boris Godunov , and Wallenstein are just of a very few that Steiner paints in da Leggi tutto

(2016 read) It’s encyclopedic on tragedy, and perhaps the main profit to be had from it is to read about lesser-known playwrights (along with those major names you’ve never got around to), with Steiner’s superb abilities at description. It’s also the best kind of writer’s manual. For instance, if you Leggi tutto

I took advantage of my fixed immobilization forced to reread some books of Steiner. I began with real presences. Death of the tragedy is more ambitious. It is somewhere an history of the literature of the Greek until us. And particularly, he wonders about the disappearance of the tragedy as literary Leggi tutto

Questo saggio di George Steiner, scritto nella sua caratteristica prosa nervosa e scattante, s’impernia intorno a una domanda che credo prima o poi ci siamo fatti tutti nel considerare le vicende dei generi letterarî: come mai non si scrivono più tragedie, e come mai quelle scritte negli ultimi seco Leggi tutto

George Steiner here surveys tragic drama and what could be called the tragic spirit from Greek tragic drama of the fifth century B.C. to the 20th century. That's his subject. Broadly speaking, his purposes are three: to show in what view of life the tragic spirit has been grounded; to illuminate tha Leggi tutto

Very rarely am I this pleasantly surprised when my expectations are disappointed. Here's what happened: I checked out The Death of Tragedy because I wanted a book that would give me a solid overview of Greek tragedy. Something like, say, Greek Tragedy by HDF Kitto. I got that for the first ten pages Leggi tutto

Colossal knowledge is large and deep in Steiner books or lectures: Here he presents an advanced comprehension of tragedy and drama, with the comparative method that is not at the reach of all scholars. The opera is sustained by multi fields, multilayers, and above all, cultural context. Sometimes wi Leggi tutto

Steiner packs more information in a parenthetical than most can put in a chapter. His range and scope for this topic astound me. I can see why he was called the pioneer of Comparative Literature studies. Within the scope of his essay (354 pages of an essay), he writes with ease about Sophocles, Euri Leggi tutto

مبدا بررسی اشتاینر اواخر قرون وسطاست جایی که به نظر او شکل گیری تراژدی تقریبا منتفی است.قرون وسطایی ها تصورات عجیبی راجع به ژانرهای ادبی و ادیبان داشتند مثلا ویرژیل را یک جادوگر کهن میدانستند یا تراژدی را هر گونه داستان اندوهزا با پایان ناخوشایند می دانستند و کمدی را داستانهای مفرح با پایان خوش.دانت Leggi tutto

Just finished my first read. How could any one person be so intimately knowledgeable of so broad a field? I wonder, is there anybody around today who's read--and grasped-- as much literature as Steiner had? A great stylist, too. Haven't read most of the works discussed, but his insights and elegance Leggi tutto