Redeeming words
language and the promise of happiness in the stories of Döblin and Sebald
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Publication
2013 - State University of New York Press, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
81,000 words, Guess
Page Count
324 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26884633M
- ISBN-139781438447810
- OCLC Control Number823927369
- Library of Congress Control Number2012045688
Classifications
- DDC833/.912
- LCCPT2607.O35 Z7174 2013
Description
In this probing look at Alfred Döblin{u2019}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{u2014}writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments{u2014}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. -- From publisher's website.
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Series Statement
- SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
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