Redeeming words and the promise of happiness : a critical theory approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladamir Nabokov / / David Kleinberg-Levin

• Autore: Kleinberg-Levin David Michael <1939->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.52
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 20th century - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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. </sp
• Titolo autorizzato: Redeeming words and the promise of happiness
• ISBN: 1-283-94252-6; 0-7391-7752-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824624003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II