The Cambridge companion to Walter Benjamin

The Cambridge companion to Walter Benjamin / edited by David S. Ferris.

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 an...

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Other Authors: Ferris, David S., 1954- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Criticism and interpretation.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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