David Kleinberg Levin: 2 books
Beckett's Words
The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory,...
Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness
A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book boldly ventures to cross some traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument regarding the nature of language by reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. So it is a work both in literary criticism...