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Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald - Couverture rigide

Livre 9 sur 22: SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

Kleinberg-Levin, David

 
9781438447810: Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald
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ISBN 10 : 1438447817 ISBN 13 : 9781438447810
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2013

Synopsis

In this probing look at Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Döblin and Sebald—writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments—have in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. Kleinberg-Levin considers the fast-paced, staccato, and hard-cut sentences of Döblin and the ghostly, languorous, and melancholy prose fiction of Sebald to articulate how both writers use language in an attempt to recover and convey this utopian promise of happiness for life in a time of mourning.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His many books include Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger; Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics, also published by SUNY Press; and Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438447817
ISBN 13 
9781438447810
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
324
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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