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...Kaelie Giffel Bringing together Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story and Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” this essay argues that Benjamin’s concept of “constellating” events that are noncausally yet historically related to each other is uniquely able to help us grasp the specificity...

... of modern life. This essay studies the peculiar convergence of these contradictory movements in The Waste Land . The article provides a full account of Eliot’s postwar engagement with dadaism and classicism before examining the influence of each movement on The Waste Land . Walter Benjamin’s theory...

... on an array of thinkers, counterbalancing such West- ern theorists as Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Giorgio Agamben, and Paul De Man with South Asianists ranging from Romila Thapar, J. A. B. van Buitenen, Wendy Doniger, and Bimal Krishna...

... . New York : Dover . Benjamin Walter . 2003 . Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: Volume 4, 1938–1940 . Translated by Bullock Marcus . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bowen Elizabeth . 1952 . The Demon Lover and Other Stories . London : Jonathan Cape...

..., West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood by Tom Cerasulo Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. 216 pages Daniel Worden In his classic essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Re- producibility,” Walter Benjamin notes that film presents viewers with a unified...

... in recognizing a sense of weariness and despair in Nostromo, but his explanation for it is, and so is his discussion of Conrad’s philosophy in relation to that of Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, and even Slavoj Zizek. In the study’s final chapter, Adams turns to Virginia Woolf, analyz­...

..., if not the distribution of its mechanics. Unlike Walter Benjamin, who focuses on the distinctiveness of childhood as a period during which new relations with the object world beyond commodity relations can be explored, Hurston finds play capable of reorienting bodies at any age. 9 But Hurston is also attentive...

... : Seabury . Benjamin Walter . 1996 . “ On the Concept of History .” Translated by Jephcott Edmund Eiland Howard . In Selected Writings . vol. 4 , edited by Bullock Marcus Jennings Michael W. , 389 – 411 . Harvard University Press : Cambridge, MA . Benjamin Walter...

... Saler’s book has to do with its relationship to the Marxist traditions of cultural critique. A comparison to Miriam Bratu Hansen’s somewhat different account of modernity, in her posthumously published 501 Joel Burges Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin...

... commercial accessibility, the experi- ence of music “came to be unmistakably worldly, even quotidian.” Walter Pater allows Graham a way into the discussion of music and art, but the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno more centrally informs much of his work. In particular, Graham is influenced...

... revolutionary encounters with the urgent inhumanity of the twentieth century’s new media. In and through it, to paraphrase Walter Benjamin on that great cyborg Charlie Chaplin, modern humanity would find its organs. If, as Thurtle argues so well and so innovatively in this fine book, genetic...

.... —Walter Benjamin (258) W * the publication of Paradise in 1998,Toni Morrison completed a trilogy of historical novels that began with Beloved (1987) and Jazz (1992). Broadly speaking, Morrison’s trilogy is concerned with “re-membering” the historical past for herself, for African Americans...

... embrace of the first person—the essayist’s voice—have largely made it suspect in a discipline that spent much of the last century trying to establish itself as objective. Nonetheless, critics and theorists inspired by 532 Review such writers as Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin...

... Barrett Watten and Susan Howe?” Ashton, however, equates the term with one stylistic feature: indeterminacy, and this is to fall hopelessly short of accuracy. That said, I thoroughly concur with Ashton’s main thesis that Riding and Stein, as much as Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin...

... and present. As ephemeral, transient—in short, throwaway—texts, popular fictions are in some ways the best registers of cultural and social change. Sometimes, as Walter Benjamin has pointed out, in the detritus of modernity we find auguries of what is to come. As feminist critics have shown, while...

... restoring their historicity as communicative systems open to renego- tiation. Wutz views Doctorow as an “archivist” in Walter Benjamin’s sense: a “collector of discarded materials” (18) who refashions the history of me- dia culture via its abandoned byproducts, an author for whom “the novel is poised...

... comments, Cane imagines the body in technological assemblages that are not just the camera-eye assemblage that [Walter] Benjamin describes but a more thoroughly imbricated relationship. . . . The title announces the mode of the blazon, but rather than fixing a penetrating gaze upon inert bodily...

... and their foreheads” are “markedly different” (Commission on CIA Activities 257). The scienticization of looking demands that every object be reduced to elements that allow for comparative analysis. What Walter Benjamin called this “new way of seeing” (519)14 reached its apogee in the testimony of Dr...

... symbolism and ignored decadence as significant for modernism’s emergence. Sherry traces Wilson’s views back to Arthur Symons’s displacement of decadence by symbolism, under William Butler Yeats’s strong influence, in The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899). Using Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man...

... of the modernist era, as ideal vehicle for “endless melody.” It is as if the Romantic notion of the sublime has now overtaken all the arts as their very precondition, so that they always seek to induce versions of intoxication. Yet toward the end, Rasula cites Walter Benjamin, for whom allegory, even as the result...