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...Richard T. Gray On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald . By Eric L. Santner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxii + 219 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Richard T. Gray is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University...

...Marcus Bullock Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 BENJAMIN, BAUDELAIRE, ROSSETTI, AND THE DISCOVERY OF ERROR By MARCUSBULLOCK Walter Benjamin wrote much that examined the situation of nine- teenth-century culture...

...Alfred Owen Aldridge Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY By ALFREDOWEN ALDRIDGE Captain Booth, the well-meaning hero of Fielding’s Amelia, begins his cycle of misfortune...

...J. C. Levenson Robert F. Sayre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. xiii + 212 pp. $4.75. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 98 REVIEWS The Examined Self: Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, Henry James...

... the category of world literature presupposes authors and translators driven to contribute to the canon of world literature. Walter Benjamin observes that translation endows a literary work with “continued life” or “afterlife,” without which many works of global significance remain “dead” or marginalized...

...Benjamin T. Spencer William Peirce Randel. New York: King's Crown Press, 1946. Pp. xi + 313. $3.50. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Helm C. White 251 always realized at present. In their resistance to toleration in New...

...Benjamin Bennett Benjamin Bennett is Kenan Professor of German at the University of Virginia. His most recent books are Goethe as Woman: The Undoing of Literature (2001) and All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater (2005). University of Washington 2007 A New History of German...

...Benjamin T. Spencer Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 A NATIONAL LITERATURE : POST-CIVIL WAR DECADE By BENJAMIN T. SPENCER That after each demonstration of national power in the early decades of the Republic a demand arose for a national literature...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman [email protected] Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England . By Mary Kate Hurley . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2021 . xii + 212 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Translation entails...

...Benjamin Boyce Benjamin Beard. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications, English Studies No. 7, 1953. Pp. xi + 227. $2.50, cloth; $1.75, paper. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Allen R. Bcnham 75...

...Benjamin Bennett Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 KLEIST’S PUPPETS IN EARLY HOFMANNSTHAL By BENJAMINBENNETT As far as I know, it cannot be demonstrated conclusively that Hof- mannsthal was aware of Kleist’s essay “Uber das...

...Benjamin Nyce Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 JOYCE CARY’S POLITICAL TRILOGY THE ATMOSPHERE OF POWER By BENJAMINNYCE In To Be a Pilgrim, the second novel of Joyce Cary’s first trilogy...

...Benjamin F. Bart E. Mulhauser Ruth. Cleveland and London: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1969. xv + 261 pp. $7.95. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 GEKALD E. ENSCOE 229 immediate impact of Shelley the person...

... upsets the neat order of historical periods he labored to construct—in the name of progress—anticipates the semi- nal theorization of political time, Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1941). Designating his initial opponent as “his...

... the notion of ideology and cultural domination in aesthetic terms, Anglo-American critics have tended to appeal to Benjamin’s famous juxtaposition of the aesthetic and the political in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” I hope to demonstrate that their appropriation of Benjamin...

... modernist thinkers and writers—even those among the avant-gardes who, like the Italian futurists, disavowed the art of all previous eras. That Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Walter Benjamin are found among this book’s case studies will not surprise specialists, but the manner in which...

... and insightful close readings reveal a trove of “mineral” references in the works of Ludwig Tieck, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Adalbert Stifter, Walter Benjamin, and Bertolt Brecht while demonstrating how this “mineral imaginary” both grounds and unsettles these texts. Groves’s productive ambivalence toward...

... in the readings, if not in the theses, of many recent studies of space and place in literature. The theses and arguments of these studies, however, are more often indebted, as are the books under review, to the most idiosyncratic of the Frankfurt School thinkers, Walter Benjamin. The wings of Walter...

... 527 Day of the Locust can or should be reduced to a summary of Frankfurt school theorizing, but only to make a case for West’s novel as a SUP tained and complex analysis of mass culture comparable to the work of Benjamin and Adorno. In his cynical and mocking parody of popular movies...

... semantic concerns, the novel commences with the act, and fact, of mediated perception. Benjamin’s opening rec- ollection, ‘Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting,” announces the mediations of fence, flowers, language, and the unin terpre tive consciousness...