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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.

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• Full title: Sovereignty and Experience: Walter Benjamin and Witold Gombrowicz
• Subtitle: the Redemptive Violence of Allegory and the Interhuman Church
• Author: Jill Harnesberger
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9783639140422
• ID: 06822679
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Weight: 250 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 157 × 18 mm
• Published: 2009

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