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In the language of Walter Benjamin /

By:

Jacobs, Carol

Material type: Text

TextPublication 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:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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.

Holdings
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.

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