Jill Harnesberger

Sovereignty and Experience: Walter Benjamin and Witold Gombrowicz

the Redemptive Violence of Allegory and the Interhuman Church

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By dismantling misconceptions about experience,
allegory, and storytelling, my book on Walter
Benjamin and Witold Gombrowicz reveals that in the
decline of the storyteller the allegorist is the new
storyteller. Consequently, the preconceived notions
that separate storytelling from allegory should be
diminished. The allegorist, whose acts of
redemptive rescue forge constellations between
elements of the past unknown and unexperienced by
anyone in the present, finds common ground with
the storyteller through a necessary violence,
Benjamin's model of allegory - the angel of history.
Benjamin's Trauerspiel and Baudelaire studies create
a redemptive model for experience - allegory.
Moreover, allegory's role in salvaging experience
finds its counterpart in another violent model of
interruption: Witold Gombrowicz's interhuman
church. What allegory salvages in history and
inexperience, the interhuman church forms amidst the
ruins of language: the inauthentic "sovereign" self.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9783639140422
• ISBN-10: 3639140427
• Artikelnr.: 26489023

Autorenporträt

Dr. Jill Harnesberger earned her doctorate in Comparative
Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo in
2008. She currently resides in Macon, Georgia and teaches in
the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Fort Valley
State University.