Constellations of Reading: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality
Author:   Christian Emden ,  David Robin Midgley ,  Carlo Salzani
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   13
ISBN:  

9783039118601


Pages:   392
Publication Date:   22 December 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Constellations of Reading: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality


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Author:   Christian Emden ,  David Robin Midgley ,  Carlo Salzani
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9783039118601


ISBN 10:   3039118609
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   22 December 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Contents: The four ""constellations of reading"" - The Art of Straying: Walter Benjamin and the Dialectics of Flanerie - Flanerie after the Battle: Juan Goytisolo and the Return of the Flaneur - The City as Crime Scene: Walter Benjamin and the Traces of the Detective - Spectres of Detection: Paul Auster and the Metaphysical Detective - The Decay of Love: Walter Benjamin and the Silent Whore - Paradoxes of the Unruly Commodity: Dacia Maraini and the Talking Whore - The Trash of History: Walter Benjamin and the Dialectical Ragpicker - The Past as Future: Mudrooroo and the Indigenous Ragpicker."

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The Author: Carlo Salzani completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University (Australia), to which he is now affiliated as a Research Associate. He is currently working as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institut fur Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Germany).

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