Language and silence
Subtitle: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman.
Series: Atheneum (Series) -- 158.
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Literature; Literature -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Humane literacy; title: The retreat from the word; title: Silence and the poet; title: To civilize our gentlemen; title: Night words; title: The Pythagorean genre; title: The hollow miracle; title: A note on Gu nter Grass; title: K; title: Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron; title: A kind of survivor; title: Postscript; title: Homer and the scholars; title: The book; title: Shakespeare: four hundredth; title: Two translations; title: F.R. Leavis; title: Orpheus with his myths: Claude Le vi-Strauss; title: On reading Marshall McLuhan; title: Me rime e; title: Thomas Mann's Felix Krull; title: Lawrence Durrell and the baroque novel; title: Building a monument; title: Dying is an art; title: Marxism and the literary critic; title: Georg Luka cs and his devil's pact; title: An aesthetic manifesto; title: Out of central Europe; title: The writer and communism; title: Trotsky and the tragic imagination; title: Literature and post-history.