Redeeming Words

Released on by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
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  • Redeeming Words Book Detail

  • Author : David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
  • Release Date : 2013-10-21
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 386
  • ISBN 13 : 1438447825
  • File Size : 93,93 MB
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Redeeming Words by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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