|
Books: When words have failed us Grammars of Creation by George Steiner Faber & Faber, pounds 16.99, 288pp; Has the source of true creativity shifted from the study to the lab? Lisa Jardine asks if the horrors of modern history have corrupted the arts of language - and robbed writers of their solitary splendour
|
In July 1966, a fraught encounter took place between the Jewish
poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan and the German philosopher
Martin Heidegger at Heidegger's holiday cottage in Todtnauberg. Celan
- who had sought out the philosopher - had hoped for some significant
moment of mutual understanding between himself and the thinker whose
ideas he admired, but who, troublingly, had never explicitly
repudiated the Nazism under which his important early work had been
conceived.
No such he...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
 "The Independent (London, England)")
|
Books: When words have failed us; Grammars of Creation by George Steiner Faber & Faber, pounds 16.99, 288pp; Has the source of true creativity shifted from the study to the lab? Lisa Jardine asks if the horrors of modern history have corrupted the arts of language - and robbed writers of their solitary splendour.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; In July 1966, a fraught encounter took place between the Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan and the German philosopher Martin Heidegger at Heidegger's holiday cottage in Todtnauberg. Celan - who had sought out the philosopher - had hoped for some significant moment of mutual
|
|
Testing language: Robert Creeley's fiction.
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; To write fiction was Robert Creeley's idea. As a young man, he named a volume of prose fiction the first book of my own imagination, (1) stories, fragments of acts that got displaced by the words as he worked to test the meanings, the signs, (2) like the protagonist of Creeley's novel The Island,
|
|
Defining whole language in a postmodern age.
Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
; Can whole language be 'defined' in the true sense of the word? Lorraine Wilson believes that while whole language can never be 'defined' in the sense suggested by the word's Latin root (definire = to finish, finalise), certain core principles and assumptions can be made explicit. In this article
|
|
Nationalism and Language in Kurdistan, 1918-1985
The Middle East Journal
; ... also commendable. He presents 65 tables of background data, 42 figures illustrating Kurdish language books and documents, and 14 maps that feature aspects of the Kurdish speech area. Hassanpour notes the lack of any theoretical approach in Kurdish language standardization ...
|
|
Will S. African Language Go Way of Apartheid?
The Washington Post
; ... Cola franchiser and its monopoly beer manufacturer had both decided to drop Afrikaans from the small type on their cans, the news drew howls of protest. Afrikaans-speakers saw the move as both an insult and a warning. They comprise about 3 million whites ...
|
