03450nam 22006011 450 991081148040332120240417042906.01-4384-4782-5(CKB)3710000000056848(EBL)3408781(SSID)ssj0001055101(PQKBManifestationID)11573254(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001055101(PQKBWorkID)11011501(PQKB)10482071(MiAaPQ)EBC3408781(OCoLC)865840029(MdBmJHUP)muse27214(Au-PeEL)EBL3408781(CaPaEBR)ebr10784866(DE-B1597)683276(DE-B1597)9781438447827(EXLCZ)99371000000005684820130109h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRedeeming words language and the promise of happiness in the stories of Döblin and Sebald /David Kleinberg-Levin1st ed.Albany :State University of New York Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (386 p.)SUNY series, Intersections : philosophy and critical theoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-4384-4781-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""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.Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)Language and languages in literatureLanguage and languages in literature.833/.912Kleinberg-Levin David Michael1939-496357MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811480403321Redeeming words4076671UNINA