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Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Dblin and Sebald (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosoph,Used
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In this probing look at Alfred Dblin'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 KleinbergLevin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hlderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth and twentiethcentury thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Dblin and Sebaldwriters with radically different styles working in different historical momentshave in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. KleinbergLevin considers the fastpaced, staccato, and hardcut sentences of Dblin 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.
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