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Informationen zum Autor Walter 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. Klappentext Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces. Zusammenfassung Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Benjamin
• Assisted by: Michael W. Jennings (Editor), Jennings Michael W. (Editor), Marcus Greil (Foreword), Edmund Jephcott (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780674052291
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05229-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary essays, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval