Redeeming words and the promise of happiness : a critical theory approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladamir Nabokov

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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael, 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
Subjects:
Stevens, Wallace, > 1879-1955 > Criticism and interpretation.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, > 1899-1977 > Criticism and interpretation.
Academic theses.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Truth
  • Reason's folly
  • The realism of the imagination
  • Word-play: language on holiday
  • Redemption?
  • Modernism
  • Mischievous predecessors
  • Transparencies and metamorphoses: Nabokov's language games
  • When the promise of happiness appears: redeeming the dust on the surface
  • Paradise of memory and imagination.

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