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Walter Benjamin : theoretical questions

Author: David S Ferris
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Named Person: Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin; Walter Benjamin
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David S Ferris
ISBN: 0804725691 9780804725699 0804725705 9780804725705
OCLC Number: 33277148
Notes: Essays based on papers presented at a conference on Walter Benjamin on October 18-19, 1991 at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.
Description: xii, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Aura, resistance, and the event of history / David S. Ferris --
Mass mediauras; or, art, aura, and media in the work of Walter Benjamin / Samuel Weber --
The sober absolute : on Benjamin and the early romantics / Rodolphe Gasche --
The genesis of judgment : spatiality, analogy, and metaphor in Benjamin's "On language as such and on human language" / Peter Fenvers --
Walter Benjamin : topographically speaking / Carol Jacobs --
The poetic ground laid bare (Benjamin reading Baudelaire) / Rainer Nägele --
On presentation in Benjamin / Hans-Jost Frey --
The violence of destruction / Alexander García Düttmann --
Momentary violence / Tom McCall.
Responsibility: edited by David S. Ferris.
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This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.

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