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GRAMMARS OF CREATION

By George Steiner

Yale. 344 pp. $29.95

Since the publication of his very first book, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1959), George Steiner has insisted on countering the theoretical momentum of contemporary critical practice with his own brand of excitable, wide-ranging surmise. Polyphonically erudite, and enamored of a referential sweep that makes me think of Phil Spector's "wall of sound" concept of orchestration, Steiner has, in works like After Babel (1975), Antigones (1984), and No Passion Spent (1996), looked to address the most vexing issues, including, among many others, ...

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