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Glimpsing the Transcendent

From the May 1990 Print Edition

Real Presencesby george steiner university of chicago press, 236 pages, $19.95  Of the major literary critics of our period there is, apart from Northrop Frye, but one other whose work requires us to reach toward such a term as “greatness,” and this is George Steiner. The shocking . . . . Continue Reading »