Intellectual critic George Steiner died Monday at his home in Cambridge, U.K. He was a native to Paris but fled with his family to the U.S. in 1940, before the Nazis arrived. Steiner was one of the ...

George Steiner, an internationally renowned scholar and literary critic , has been appointed the 2001-2002 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, the University announced this week. "It's not ...

Venue: Arts One Lecture Theatre, Arts One Building (Mile End Campus), Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS The Department of Comparative Literature in the School of Languages, Linguistics ...

The lecture will look at ways in which translations have played a key role in transforming literary history. Despite the discourse of loss that has bedevilled so much discussion of translation in ...

As our interview ends, George Steiner moves to the bookshelves in his sunny Cambridge sitting-room and retrieves two simple, sacred objects – relics, almost. The first, a plain visiting card, carries ...

Francis George Steiner, writer and critic. Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and sometime professor of comparative literature, Geneva. Born: 23 April 1929 in Paris, France. Died: 3 ...

In his 1997 memoir, Errata, George Steiner describes calling on the Oxford don Humphry House shortly before his doctoral viva: “On his Victorian lectern lay the handsomely printed text of my ...