Main entry:

Gilloch, Graeme.

Title & Author:

Myth and metropolis : Walter Benjamin and the city / Graeme Gilloch.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, in association with Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Description:

ix, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- 1 Urban Images: From Ruins to Revolutions (starting p. 21) -- 2 Urban Memories: Labyrinth and Childhood (starting p. 55) -- 3 Dialectical Images: Paris and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity (starting p. 93) -- 4 Urban Allegories: Paris, Baudelaire and the Experience of Modernity (starting p. 132) -- Conclusion (starting p. 168) -- Notes (starting p. 185) -- Bibliography (starting p. 215) -- Index (starting p. 222)
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

A study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience. Benjamin's critical account of the modern urban environment is traced through a number of key texts. This book highlights their relevance for our contemporary understanding of modernity.

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ISBN:

0745611257 (acid-free paper)
9780745611259 (acid-free paper)
0745620108
9780745620107

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Critique et interprétation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter.
Cities and towns in literature.
Villes dans la littérature.
Großstadt
Metropole
Moderne
Stadt
Stedenbouw.
Theorievorming.
German literature

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110599
Call No.: ID PT2603.E45 Z6; ID:96-B1755
Status: Available