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Steiner, George, 1929-2020

LC control no.n 79106189
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6069.T417
Personal name headingSteiner, George, 1929-2020
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Variant(s)Steiner, Francis George, 1929-2020
Steiner, G. (George), 1929-2020
Other standard no.0000000121468460
Associated countryGreat Britain United States
Associated placeGeneva (Switzerland)
Birth date1929-04-23
Death date2020-02-03
Place of birthNeuilly-sur-Seine (France)
Place of deathCambridge (England)
Field of activityComparative literature Literature--Philosophy
AffiliationUniversité de Genève Churchill College
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Authors Critics Essayists Philosophers Novelists
Found inTolstoy or Dostoevsky, 1959: title page (George Steiner)
A reading against Shakespeare, 1986: t.p. (G. Steiner)
Wikipedia, viewed October 26, 2023 (George Steiner; Francis George Steiner; born April 23, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; died February 3, 2020 in Cambridge, England; Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator; wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust; professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Geneva (1974-94), professor of comparative literature and fellow at the University of Oxford (1994-95), professor of poetry at Harvard University (2001-02), and extraordinary fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge)
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Associated languageeng