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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 September 2012
    11 September 2008
    ISBN:
    9780511793257
    9780521864589
    9780521683081
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511793257
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.4kg, 174 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.29kg, 174 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjamin's writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, history, allegory, material culture, the poet Charles Baudelaire, and his vast examination of the social, political and historical significance of the Arcades of nineteenth-century Paris 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.

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