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The Cambridge introduction to Walter Benjamin /

By: Series: Cambridge introductions to literaturePublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: xii, 159 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521864589
  • 0521864585
  • 9780521683081
  • 0521683084
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Contents:
Biography: a life displaced -- Contexts -- Works -- Critical reception.
Review: "For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjamin's writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, and material culture have left an enduring and important critical legacy. This volume examines in detail a substantial selection of his important critical writings on these topics from 1916 to 1940 and outlines his life in pre-war Germany, his association with the Frankfurt School, and the dissemination of his ideas and methodologies into a variety of academic disciplines since his death. David Ferris traces the development of Benjamin's key critical concepts and provides students with an accessible overview of the life, work, and thought of one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural critics."--Jacket.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General B 3209 BEN FER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0010155

Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-154) and index.

Biography: a life displaced -- Contexts -- Works -- Critical reception.

"For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjamin's writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, and material culture have left an enduring and important critical legacy. This volume examines in detail a substantial selection of his important critical writings on these topics from 1916 to 1940 and outlines his life in pre-war Germany, his association with the Frankfurt School, and the dissemination of his ideas and methodologies into a variety of academic disciplines since his death. David Ferris traces the development of Benjamin's key critical concepts and provides students with an accessible overview of the life, work, and thought of one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural critics."--Jacket.

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