{"product_id":"redeeming-words-david-michael-kleinberg-levin-9781438447810","title":"Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProbing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this probing look at Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e and the stories of W. G. Sebald, \u003ci\u003eRedeeming Words\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Michael Kleinberg-Levin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438447817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438447810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2014","brand":"David Michael Kleinberg-Levin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065578696959,"sku":"9781438447810","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_503aa698-dbe5-4e63-a797-c994e4a5a94d.jpg?v=1768675901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/redeeming-words-david-michael-kleinberg-levin-9781438447810","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}