Walter Benjamin : or, Towards a revolutionary criticism / Terry Eagleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Contributor:

Potok Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Benjamin, Walter.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Marxist criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

187 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Towards a revolutionary criticism

Place of Publication:

London : Verso Editions and NLB : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books, 1981.

Summary:

This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought. As the subtitle suggests, its goal is not merely to contemplate Benjamin's approach to language, history, and art but to chart a dynamic new course for contemporary socialist criticism. To do this, Eagleton brushes Benjamin's Trauerspiel against seventeenth-century British literature, tests his concept of the "aura" against Freud and Lacan, and undertakes his most sustained engagement with Derrida and the political crossroads of deconstruction.

Contents:

I. Walter Benjamin. 1. The Baroque Allegoty

2. Aura and Commodity

3. History, tradition and revolution

- II. Towards a revolutionary criticism. 1. Marxist criticism

2. A Small History of Rhetoric

3. On Textuality

4. Marxism and Deconstruction

5. Carnival and Comedy: Bakhtin and Brecht

6. The Angel of History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Eagleton, Terry, 1943- Walter Benjamin.

ISBN:

0860910369

9780860910367

0860917339

9780860917335

9781844673506

1844673502

OCLC:

9111721