In the Language of Walter Benjamin - Hardcover

Jacobs, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801860318 ISBN 13: 9780801860317

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

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Jacobs (literature, State U. of New York at Buffalo) attempts to come to terms with the question of how one reads an author such as Benjamin who tells us that writing does not communicate very much to the reader. She presents such guidelines for criticism as Benjamin seems to offer in The Origin of German Tragic Drama , reminding us of his distinction between truth and knowledge. Insisting that his method of philosophical contemplation is a performance demanding precise immersion in minute details, she discusses key works such as Berlin Chronicle , the apparently biographical study of Proust, "Myslowitz Braunschweig Marseille," and the essays on the theory of language. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Carol Jacobs is a professor of comparative literature and English literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her books include Telling Time: Lévi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke and Uncontainable Romanticism: Shelley, Brontë, Kleist.

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801860318
• ISBN 13: 9780801860317
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
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