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" Redeeming words : "
David Kleinberg-Levin
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BL
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643079
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael,1939-
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Redeeming words : : language and the promise of happiness in the stories of Döblin and Sebald /\ David Kleinberg-Levin
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series, Intersections: philosophy and critical theory
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lix, 324 pages ;; 24 cm
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9781438447810 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 1438447817 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Abstract
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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. Book jacket
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Döblin, Alfred,1878-1957-- Criticism and interpretation
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Sebald, W. G., (Winfried Georg),1944-2001-- Criticism and interpretation
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Language and languages in literature
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833/.912
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PT2607.O35Z7174 2013
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