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At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

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The Lost Garden

on Claude Lévi-Strauss

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didn't really care for this one ... Lévi-Strauss was an anthropologist who wrote about "exotic" peoples in, among others, Tristes Tropiques (which is also apparently a moral-metaphysical allegory of human failure)

Steiner, G. (2009). The Lost Garden. In Steiner, G. At the New Yorker. New Directions, pp. 230-238

sforzando (en)

played with prominent stress or accent —used as a direction in music

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a baroque sforzando quavering to rest in the image

—p.230 by George Steiner
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a baroque sforzando quavering to rest in the image

—p.230 by George Steiner
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semiotics (en)

the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation (adj: semiotic)

233

"semiotics" (which is the systematic investigation of signs and symbols)

—p.233 by George Steiner
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"semiotics" (which is the systematic investigation of signs and symbols)

—p.233 by George Steiner
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entropology (en)

the study of man has become the study of disintegration and certain extinction

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defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss in contrast to anthropology

—p.238 by George Steiner
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defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss in contrast to anthropology

—p.238 by George Steiner
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