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Author:   Walter Benjamin ,  George Steiner ,  John Osborne
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.206kg
ISBN:  

9781804290460

ISBN 10:   1804290467
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   22 August 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

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He drew, from the obscure disdained German baroque, elements of the modern sensibility: the taste for allegory, surrealist shock effects, discontinuous utterance, a sense of historical catastrophe. -- Susan Sontag If the killing of Lorca was Fascism's first great crime against literature, Benjamin's death was undoubtedly the second. * The Listener * Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of this century. -- George Steiner

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Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.

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