George Steiner or on the Ethical Discourse in Literary Criticism

Literary criticism presents a sort of peculiar discourse. Besides, during XXth century, theory of literature and literary criticism developed, in Occidental area, different traditions. In Anglo-Saxon culture remained a main concept: the critic, consequently, literary thinking, must be rule by an ethical pattern and aim. George Steiner's proposal, on account of his great popularity and ability to spread beyond academic reception, and facing not only critical formalism but also deconstruction, turns into an excellent example of ethical, personal, highbrow and wittily controversial criticism.