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Selected Writings: 1938-1940
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones
Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," guaranteed to "cure what ails you." While the cures were seldom miraculous, the medicine show was an important part of American culture and of performance history. Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, and P.T. Barnum all took a turn upon the medicine show stage. This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys nineteenth century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored. Photographs of performers and of the fascinating handbills and posters used to promote the medicine show are included.
The Shows of London
History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.
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The Arcades Project
Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.
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Das Phantastische in der deutschsprachigen Literatur
Der Meister der europäischen Phantastik E.T.A. Hoffmann ist zweihundert Jahre nach seinem Tod lebendiger denn je. Aus diesem Anlass ist ein Sammelband entstanden, der sich die Auseinandersetzung mit Werk und Erbe des bedeutenden Klassikers zur Aufgabe gesetzt hat. Renommierte Forscher aus Deutschland, Spanien, Italien, der Türkei und Georgien bieten neuere Ansätze zur phantastischen Literatur an. An erster Stelle stehen neue Einsichten in die Erzählungen des romantischen Genies, das von seinen Zeitgenossen als ,Gespenster-Hoffmann' bezeichnet wurde: von den nuancierten Frauenfiguren über die Bearbeitung und Überwindung tief verwurzelter Stereotypen einer konservativen aber lesefreudigen Gesellschaft bis hin zu der kreativen Einarbeitung der Radierkunst in der Manier von Jacques Callot, der Commedia dell'arte und der Capriccio-Tradition. Ferner wird das Weiterwirken von Hoffmanns Kunst durch andersartige und neuere phantastische literarische Werke veranschaulicht, die an den Schnittstellen zur Psychoanalyse, zum Neoorientalismus oder zur Nachkriegs- und Gedächtnisliteratur stehen.
Clio Medica : Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae, Vol. 14
As periodical of the International Academy of the History of Medicine, this Clio Medica volume contains 11 papers.
The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940
The correspondence between Adorno and Walter Benjamin, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down to us from that notable age of barbarism, the 20th century. Each writer had met his match--happily--in the other. This book is the story of an elective affinity.
