02761nam 2200529Ia 450 991078602280332120200520144314.01-283-94252-60-7391-7752-4(CKB)2670000000329035(EBL)1108244(OCoLC)826659754(SSID)ssj0000804824(PQKBManifestationID)12341836(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804824(PQKBWorkID)10814610(PQKB)11197482(MiAaPQ)EBC1108244(Au-PeEL)EBL1108244(CaPaEBR)ebr10643324(CaONFJC)MIL425502(EXLCZ)99267000000032903520120706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRedeeming words and the promise of happiness[electronic resource] a critical theory approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladamir Nabokov /David Kleinberg-LevinLanham, MD Lexington Booksc20121 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-7751-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Part I: Between Wild Sense and Plain Sense: The Language of Truth in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens; 1 Truth; 2 Reason's Folly; 3 The Realism of the Imagination; 4 Word-Play: Language on Holiday; 5 Redemption?; Part II: Facing the Surface: Nabokov After Mallarmé; 6 Modernism; 7 Mischievous Predecessors; 8 Transparencies and Metamorphoses: Nabokov's Language Games; 9 When the Promise of Happiness Appears: Redeeming the Dust on the Surface; 10 Paradise of Memory and Imagination; Bibliography; IndexThis book offers a philosophical reflection on the nature of language by reading some exemplary works of literature. Drawing on the thought of philosophers-especially Plato, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Benjamin, Adorno, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, the author argues that language is the bearer of a utopian or messianic promise of happiness, and that by redeeming the revelatory power of words, the two writers in this study are contributing to the redemption of the promise of happiness in a world of reconciled antagonisms and contradictions. </spAuthors, American20th centuryHistory and criticismAuthors, AmericanHistory and criticism.811/.52Kleinberg-Levin David Michael1939-496357MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786022803321Redeeming words and the promise of happiness3721836UNINA