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If there is truth to the contention--Steiner is persuasive when he compares various fields and finds that only architecture and modern dance, those uniquely American triumphs, exhibit signs of life--his argument still feels more like animadversion than rigorous reflection.
Without ever calling Shakespeare's linguistic greatness into question, Steiner suggests an alternative requirement for true greatness, that comprehended in the German term Dichter , which carries certain lofty notions of witness and moral responsibility.
Steiner knows his Shakespeare, and Shakespeare is no Dichter . The work is too teeming, too multiform; it lacks the felt force of either the presence or absence of God.
Dr. Ober strews a variety of such booby-traps along the trail: the teasing reference to Peter Sellars' participation in Amadeus , for example, and the characterizing of George Steiner as the Oxford pundit.
But Professor Steiner's rhetoric and video-camera style were so persuasive that it was easy to overlook the fact that his argument (or part of it) was based on a complete misstatement of the facts.