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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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Abstract:
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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