On Difficulty and Other Essays

Steiner, George

Eight essays: 'Text and Context', 'On Difficulty', 'Language and Psychoanalysis', 'The Distribution of Discourse', 'Eros and Idiom', 'Whorf, Chomsky, and the Student of Literature', 'Dante Now: the Gossip of Eternity' and 'After the Book', followed by a daunting index of proper names.

Publisher: Faber and Faber. First English edition 1978
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Book label of David and Judy Gascoyne and another smaller one for David Gascoyne, else fine in dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine


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