Benjamin,Walter

Benjamin, Walter, Reflections Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographi-cal Writings, edited by Peter Demetz (New York Schocken Books, 1986). 

Benjamin, Walter, The Arcades Project Cambridge., Massachusetts Belknap Press, 1999). 

Benjamin, Walter, Charles Baudelaire, A Lyric Poet In The Era Of High Capitalism, translated by Harry Zohn (London Verso, 1973). 

Benjamin, Walter, The Task of the Translator , translated by Harry Zohn, in Theories of Translation, An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida, ed. by Rainer Schulte and John Biguenet (Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 1992), pp. 71-82. 

Benjamin, Walter, A Short History of Photography , Screen, 13 1 (1972), 5-26 Bennett, Joan, Virginia Woolf Her Art as a Novelist (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1945)... 

Benjamin, Walter. 1969. Theses on the Philosophy of History. In Illuminations Essays and Reflections. Edited by Hannah Arendt. Translated by Harry Zohn. New York Schocken Books. 253-64. 

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Probably the best book about The Project is The Dialectics of Seeing Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project by Susan Buck-Morss. She writes, Benjamin took seriously the debris of mass culture as the source of philosophical truth.The surrealists recognized reality as a dream The Arcades Project was to evoke history in order to awaken its readers from it. Dip into The Dialectics of Seeing, and see visions. 

Some of us don t read fiction [and] we will be feasting on Walter Arcades Project for years to come... Those who fall under Benjamin s spell may find themselves less willing to suspend their disbelief in fiction. The city will offer sufficient fantasy to meet most needs.[r/ie Arcades Project] is a towering literary event. A sprawling, fragmented meditation on the ethos of 19th-century Paris... The Arcades Project captures the relationship between a writer and a city in a form as richly developed as those presented in the great cosmopolitan novels of Proust, Joyce, Musil and Isherwood. ... 

Buck-Morss, Susan, The Dialectics of Seeing Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press, 1991). 

I just want to say one word to you. . . just one word. (Spoken by Mr. McGuire, played by Walter Brooke, to Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman)... 

The arcades are zones of special effects where optical illusions, tricks of the light and transformations readily occur. This is why the arcades appear so magical, but it also intimates something of their propensity to deception and delusion. The very magic of the space colludes with the commodity promises on sale. Walter Benjamin mentions a phosphorescent effect in an... 

In similar language Walter Benjamin, in one of two reviews of Kracauer s study of 1930, Die Angestellten, assesses the character of the white-collar... 

Prynne s Cool as a Mountain Stream (from a collection of 1974 titled Wound Response) addresses the commercialization and industrialization of natural auratic experience. The poem opens with an echo of Walter Benjamin s description of auratic experience in the summer afternoon, tracing the fine of a distant mountain or a twig. But soon decay is noted, a body in decline, consuming itself, within a world of global choice all over the earth . This is nature run rampant, auto-destructive ... 

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