Redeeming Words : Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of döblin and Sebald.

Intro -- Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- About Part I -- About Part II -- Part I: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz: Language as the Causality of Fate -- Opening Conversation -- Chapter 1: Fatality: Character as Fate -- 1 The Tragic Struggle for Freedom -- 2 Outline of the Story -- 3 Döblin's Prologue -- 4 Biberkopf's Character: Its Nature and Social Construction -- 5 Human Nature and Fate -- Chapter 2: Natural History -- Chapter 3: Döblin's Conception of the Modern Novel -- 1 Words and Stories -- 2 Montage: Freedom or Fate? -- Chapter 4: The Language of Fate -- 1 Metaphysical Force-Fields: The Archaic Lives On -- 2 The Problematic Ending: Unfulfilled Historical Time -- Chapter 5: Language as the Causality of Freedom -- Chapter 6: Paradise in Words: The Promise of Happiness -- Part II: Damals: The Melancholy Science of Memoryin W. G. Sebald's Stories -- Opening Conversation -- Chapter 1: Telling Stories: A Question of Transmissibility -- 1 Writing in Belatedness -- 2 The Gravity of the Sentence -- 3 Traumatized Meaning: The Remnant Between Destruction and Restitution -- 4 Melancholy Science: Modernism as an Aesthetics of Resistance -- 5 Redemption in Attentiveness: A Tender Empiricism -- 6 The Question of Transmission -- Chapter 2: Natural History: Becoming in Dissolution -- 1 Saturn's Scythe: Tarrying with the Negative -- Zerstöret das Letzte die Errinerung nicht. [AE 5/1] -- 2 Creaturely Life: Under the Judgment of Eternity -- 3 Fatalism or Freedom? -- Chapter 3: Of Humans and Other Animals -- Chapter 4: As Time Goes By: Words from the Embers of Remembering -- Chapter 5: Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness: Sebald's Phenomenology of Spirit -- 1 Reading Hegel in Sebald -- 2 Stoicism: The View from Above.

3 Skepticism: The Vertigo of Groundlessness, The Swindle of Permanence -- 4 Unhappy Consciousness: Infinite Grief and the Sustaining of Loss -- Chapter 6: Beauty : Symbol of Morality in a Phenomenology of Spirit -- 1 Beauty and the Promise of Happiness -- 2 Beauty and Truth -- 3 Beauty as Allegory -- Chapter 7: On a Journey through Disenchantment -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Prologue -- Part I: Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz: Language as the Causality of Fate -- Chapter 1: Fatality: Character as Fate -- Chapter 2: Natural History -- Chapter 3: Döblin's Conception of the Modern Novel -- Chapter 4: The Language of Fate -- Chapter 5: Language as the Causality of Freedom -- Chapter 6: Paradise in Words: The Promise of Happiness -- Part II: Damals: The Melancholy Science of Memoryin W. G. Sebald's Stories -- Opening Conversation -- Chapter 1: Telling Stories: A Question of Transmissibility -- Chapter 2: Natural History: Becoming in Dissolution -- Chapter 3: Of Humans and Other Animals -- Chapter 4: As Time Goes By: Words from the Embers of Remembering -- Chapter 5: Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness: Sebald's Phenomenology of Spirit -- Chapter 6: Beauty: Symbol of Morality in a Phenomenology of Spirit -- Chapter 7: On a Journey through Disenchantment -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.

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