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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Walter Benjamin , Michael W. Jennings , Edmund Jephcott , Greil MarcusPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: The Belknap Press Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 19.10cm Weight: 0.159kg ISBN: 9780674052291ISBN 10: 0674052293 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 02 May 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsThe prose in <i>One-Way Street </i>is positively electrified by the historical moment...Far more important than any residues of past literature, however prevalent, are the ways in which <i>One-Way Street </i>ushers in a wholly original literary aesthetics. Its formal daring is unmatched by any of Benjamin's earlier work...<i>One-Way Street </i>is dead set on a new mode of materialism, one that shares with Surrealism an esteem for everyday objects, debris, junk, and dross--for whatever is marginal, marginalized, outmoded, or fleeting. This edition's index testifies to the dizzying thematic diversity of Benjamin's undertaking: children's toys, capital punishment, money, mobs, utopia, fancy goods, misery, souvenirs, beggars, and red neon advertising signs reflected in pools of dirty rain. Form in <i>One-Way Street </i>is no mere envelope, but the very arena in which these objects and phenomena clash and generate their sparks. Benjamin's aphorisms mimic the rhythms of the street, instantiating the experiences most proper to it: distraction, reverie, shock, haste, detour, etc. Scathing critique is mixed with imagistic commentary and surrealistic prose poetry--all broken into shards and scattered like a mosaic of fragments. But however atomized and heterogeneous, the little pieces of <i>One-Way Street</i> pursue a common goal: an idiosyncratic expose on history (specifically, the disintegration of culture) as deciphered in the most concrete of its artifacts and rituals.--Michael Blum Los Angeles Review of Books (12/13/2016) Author InformationWalter Benjamin (1892–1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Michael W. Jennings is Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages at Princeton University. Greil Marcus is the author of The Doors, Mystery Train, and other books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |