UID:
almafu_9961004250802883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-79550-3
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9786612795503
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1-57113-727-0
Series Statement:
Camden House companion volumes
Content:
An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography, and the development of photography and film. Benjamin defined the task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of actualization as its methodological program in offering a new advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture, constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban topographies. The Companion brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new debates about Benjamin's intellectual legacy today. Contributors: Wolfgang Bock, Willi Bolle, Dianne Chisholm, Adrian Daub, Dominik Finkelde, Eric Jarosinski, Lutz Koepnick, Vivian Liska, Karl Ivan Solibakke, Marc de Wilde, Bernd Witte Rolf J. Goebel is Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Department of WorldLanguages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2023).
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""Frontcover ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE""; ""SOURCES OF BENJAMIN'S WORKS ""; ""CHRONOLOGY OF BENJAMIN'S MAJOR WORKS""; ""INTRODUCTION: Benjamin's Actuality""; ""1: Walter Benjamin's Criticism of Language and Literature""; ""2: The Presence of the Baroque""; ""3: Lost Orders of the Day""; ""4: Literature as the Medium of Collective Memory""; ""5: Benjamin in the Age of New Media""; ""6: One Little Rule""; ""7: The Passagen-Werk Revisited""; ""8: Benjamin's Politics of Remembrance""; ""9: The Legacy of Benjamin's Messianism""
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""10: Paris on the Amazon? Postcolonial Interrogations of Benjamin's European Modernism""""11: Benjamin's Gender, Sex and Eros""; ""12: Sonic Dreamworlds""; ""SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIST OF FURTHER READING""; ""NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX ""; ""Backcover ""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-969-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-367-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781571137272
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571137272/type/BOOK
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