The assertion that "God is dead" has profoundly affected theories of meaning and underwritten arguments of emptiness and absence in language and form, although it is these arguments of negation in modern poetic and aesthetic movements which make ours a time of the "afterword" or "epilogue" in a radically inventive way. But Steiner asks whether there can be any major literary, artistic or musical creation in the absence of the "rival Maker"? Does not the experience of a work of art wager on the sense of a presence that is ultimately theological? Professor Steiner is the author of "Language and Silence", "The Death of Tragedy", "Tolstoy or Dostoevsky?", "After Babel", "In Bluebeard's Castle" and "The Portage to San Cristobal of AH".
- ISBN10 0571140718
- ISBN13 9780571140718
- Publish Date May 1989 (first published 13 March 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English