Benjamin's Library Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque

In Benjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin's day. Taking into account the...

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Main Author: Newman, Jane O. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2011
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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