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Redeeming Words - Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald (Hardcover)
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Redeeming Words - Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald (Hardcover)
Series: SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
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In this probing look at Alfred Doblin 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,
Holderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and
twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He
shows how Doblin 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 Doblin 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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