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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 102, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article challenges the substance of what is accepted as a critical key to nineteenth-century urban experience: Walter Benjamin's concept of the flaneur. Benjamin's concept is based on incorrect readings of...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedThis study engages in a discussion of yokai (preternatural monsters in Japanese folklore) characters in Mizuki Shigeru's manga and their transmedia expansion not as an expression of Japanese cultural tradition, but as an...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 88, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere is no doubt that Walter Benjamin is a precursor of many ideas that are associated with what we now call postmodernism: his stressing of allegory as a correction to Romantic symbolic totalizing; his fascination...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJean Rhys's modernist fiction exemplifies what critic Lauren Berlant, writing of contemporary culture, calls an "impasse genre." This fiction explores hope amidst failure alongside the mourning and trauma through which...
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From: The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Johnson examines Kafka as a purveyor of weak allegory but argues that this categorization “gives us the perspective and the tools we need to understand and appreciate Kafka’s...
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From:LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedAfter editing the 1983 first Italian edition for Arsenale Editore, later reprinted by Bollati Boringhieri in 2008, the author of this essay returns to the themes of Florens Christian Rang's Historische Psychologie des...
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From: Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Yip focuses on Hou’s exposure in his Taiwan trilogy of historic episodes which had been officially suppressed, finding he uses these as a means of reexamining personal and...
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From:Shofar (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLiving memorials encourage reflection about the space of traumatic events, about the remains held (or forgotten, obfuscated), and they also encourage reflection about the return of traumatic events. How are the patterns...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe study of media is a very young discipline but its roots in literature can be traced as far back as 60 B.C.E. with Rhetoric by Aristotle. From the early days of print, to the age of social media, and with the new...
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From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed1. Introduction In 1936 the German philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote one of his most famous essays, "The Storyteller". Here he highlights and discusses the gradual disappearance of oral, collective communication - as...
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From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Our heritage was left to us without a testament." Hannah Arendt repeatedly borrows this formula (from Rene Char) to capture the predicament of revolutionary modernity. Without a testament, without any symbolic means of...
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From:Annali d'Italianistica (Vol. 37) Peer-ReviewedFrom the pages of Elena Ferrante's quartet entitled L'amica geniale, the Neapolitan neighborhood of Rione Luzzatti emerges as a contaminating urban space that infects the lives of those who live within its perimeter. My...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 120, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAmong those who love cities, who could fail to admire Walter Benjamin, that protean philosopher of urbanism, that poet of the sidewalk? In 1927 he began to study the workings of Paris from 1830 to 1870, when it was the...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedThis article argues in favor of continuous symbolic relevance and analytical power of flaneur to pose significant questions about our present social condition, but proposes this can be achieved not by looking at the...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 7, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWalter Benjamin's "Angel of History" inspired by Paul Klee's artwork "Angelus Novus" has become a modern icon that continues to receive international acclaim in markedly different contexts and situations. This reception...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe common goal of both historical and animist materialism is the reenchantment of the world. To realize this goal, contemporary African literature must do more than simply represent the world. Its most vital role is to...
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From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn Michael Chabon's 2007 alternative history novel, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, a Jewish refuge in Sitka, Alaska is created during the Second World War and survives for six decades after the stillborn creation of the...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedThis study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedUnlike a work of literature, translation does not find itself in the center of the language forest, but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering, aiming at that single spot where echo is...
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From:Biography (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhat we call the face is precisely that exceptional presentation of self by self, incommensurable with the presentation of realities simply given, always suspect of some swindle, always possibly dreamt up. --E....