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UNINA9910811480403321 |
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Autore |
Kleinberg-Levin David Michael <1939-> |
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Titolo |
Redeeming words : language and the promise of happiness in the stories of Döblin and Sebald / / David Kleinberg-Levin |
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Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (386 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series, Intersections : philosophy and critical theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Chapter 4: As Time Goes By: Words from the Embers of Remembering""""Chapter 5: Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness: Sebaldâ€?s Phenomenology of Spirit""; ""Â1 Reading Hegel in Sebald""; ""Â2 Stoicism: The View from Above""; ""Â3 Skepticism: The Vertigo of Groundlessness, The Swindle of Permanence""; ""Â4 Unhappy Consciousness: Infinite Grief and the Sustaining of Loss""; ""Chapter 6: Beauty : Symbol of Morality in a Phenomenology of Spirit""; ""Â1 Beauty and the Promise of Happiness""; ""Â2 Beauty and Truth""; ""Â3 Beauty as Allegory"" |
""Chapter 1: Telling Stories: A Question of Transmissibility"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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