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Redeeming Words - Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,969
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Redeeming Words - Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald (Hardcover): David Michael...

Redeeming Words - Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald (Hardcover)

David Michael Kleinberg Levin

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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Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Release date: November 2013
First published: November 2013
Authors: David Michael Kleinberg Levin
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-4781-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
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LSN: 1-4384-4781-7
Barcode: 9781438447810

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