UID:
almafu_9959695978002883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-81648-9
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0-511-99949-6
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical and historical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include Benjamin's relation to the avant-garde movements of his time, the form of the work of art, his theories on language and mimesis, modernity, his relation to Brecht and the Frankfurt School, his significance and relevance to modern cultural studies, his formative interpretation of Romanticism, and his autobiographical writings. The volume is aimed at readers who may be coming to Benjamin for the first time or who have some knowledge of Benjamin but would like to know more about the issues and concepts central to his work. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Walter Benjamin and the European avant-garde / Michael Jennings -- Art forms / Jan Mieszkowski -- Language and mimesis in Walter Benjamin's work / Beatrice Hanssen -- Walter Benjamin's concept of cultural history / Howard Caygill -- Benjamin's modernity / Andrew Benjamin -- Benjamin and psychoanalysis / Sarah Ley Roff -- Benjamin and the ambiguities of Romanticism / Rebecca Comay -- Body politics: Benjamin's dialectical materialism between Brecht and the Frankfurt School / Rainer Nagele -- Method and time: Benjamin;s dialectical images / Max Pensky -- Benjamin's phantasmagoria: the Arcades Project / Margaret Cohen -- Acts of self-portraiture: Benjamin's confessional and literary writings / Gerhard Richter.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-79724-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-79329-7
Language:
English
