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In the language of Walter Benjamin /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.Description: 136 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801860318
  • 9780801860317
  • 0801866693
  • 9780801866692
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 838/.91209 21
LOC classification:
  • PT2603.E455 Z679 1999
Contents:
Letters from Walter Benjamin -- Berlin chronicle: topographically speaking -- Walter Benjamin: image of Proust -- Benjamin's Tessera: "Myslowitz, Braunschweig, Marseille" -- The monstrosity of translation: "The task of the translator" -- Emergency, break: things will never be the same (again).
Summary: If Walter Benjamin (with an irony that belies his seemingly tragic life) is now recognized as one of the century's most important writers, reading him is no easy matter. Benjamin opens one of his most notable essays, "The Task of the Translator," with the words "No poem is intended for the reader, no image for the be-holder, no symphony for the listener." How does one read an author who tells us that writing does not communicate very much to the reader? How does one learn to regard what comes to us from Benjamin as something other than direct expression? Carol Jacobs' In the Language of Walter Benjamin is an attempt to come to terms with this predicament.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Carleton University, AVRC Open-stacks PT2603.E455 Z679 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16055000688

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-132) and index.

Letters from Walter Benjamin -- Berlin chronicle: topographically speaking -- Walter Benjamin: image of Proust -- Benjamin's Tessera: "Myslowitz, Braunschweig, Marseille" -- The monstrosity of translation: "The task of the translator" -- Emergency, break: things will never be the same (again).

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