The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin - Couverture souple

Ferris, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521683084 ISBN 13 : 9780521683081

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Ferris is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521683084
• ISBN 13: 9780521683081
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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