Real Presences

Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication.

"A real tour de force. . . . All the virtues of the author's astounding intelligence and compelling rhetoric are evident from the first sentence onward."--Anthony C. Yu, Journal of Religion

Author: George Steiner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/23/1991
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9780226772349
ISBN10: 0226772349
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory

About the Author
George Steiner has written a great many books during his long and distinguished career as a literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He was professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow of St Anne's College at Oxford University, and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University.