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Women as Constellation in Walter Benjamin’s Aesthetics

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Damião C.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2016

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issue 2(41)

119-134

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In seeking to combine the concept of the ‘Feminine’ and ‘Aesthetics,’ the approach here is to carry out an initial examination of Walter Benjamin’s aesthetic theory, then delve into his texts on Eros, leading to his personal correspondence. These combined references will indicate his change of mind, moving from the feminine, as unique, towards its ‘constellation formation’. Montage is the medium of leading with quotation as a mosaic incorporating the image of constellation. The use of montage has parallels in certain avant-garde art movements, its purpose being to disrupt a purely linear approach, in order to cope with the reality of the fragmentation of experience. Although we have little evidence of Benjamin’s theory being connected to Gender Studies, we can take his theory on Eros as an example of how this philosopher foresaw some of the contemporary questions concerning women, amalgamating these with his Aesthetics theory.

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Remapping the Constellation of Walter Benjamin’s Allegorical Method

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Wong J.

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal

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2015

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vol. 25

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issue 1

37-59

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The now-longstanding academic revival of allegory, as well as its import as a perennial buzzword of contemporary art criticism, owes much to a group of essays published in the journal October in the early 1980s. Authors Craig Owens and Benjamin Buchloh, in turn, drew a bloodline to the ideas of allegory that occupied Walter Benjamin throughout his literary career. However, whereas Benjamin saw allegory as the expression of a radical, indeed messianic, view of political possibility, the October writers found in allegory a counter-paradigm against Modernism that would resist the latter's totalizing tendencies by pursing its own deconstructive fate of “lack of transcendence.” In the following essay, I trace the source of this discrepancy to the crucial theological underpinnings of Benjamin's concept of allegory, without which the allegorical forms - appropriation and montage - produce not miraculous flashes of unmediated recognition but the permanent impossibility of communication.

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Cultural Sources of Verse: A Poem by Eugen Gomringer

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Kremer A.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2013

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issue 3(6) cz.1

125-139

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Eugen Gomringer’s poetry of the 1950s and ‘60s was strongly rooted in such elements of contemporaneous culture as Swiss concrete painting, the Swiss style of typography, the functional design of the Bauhaus tradition, and the Stuttgart-based modern theories of aesthetics. Some of these practices were the basis on which Gomringer constructed his own poetic means, while others were directly implemented in the layout or cover designs of Gomringer’s poetic books. In this paper the sources of Gomringer’s verse are examined with special reference to the book 33 konstellationen and the mathematical verse construction of one poem, “worte sind schatten,” whose structure proves to be paradoxical, simultaneously complicated yet simple.

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Vortage passieren lassen: Skizzen zu Transfers zwischen Ort und Zeitbezug in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestagen in Hinsicht auf Prag

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Plath N.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2015

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vol. 12

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issue 24

171-195

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The paper concentrates on selected passages from Uwe Johnsonʼs opus magnum, Jahrestage (Anniversaries), in which the Prague Spring and the events of 1968 play a key role, and develops some ideas on how narrations of history and critique of language can jointly (as a translation of sorts) be understood as a critical approach to what is taken to be the present and the reality of the past. It is argued that Hannah Arendtʼs notion of the unpredictability of the future and of the event variously influenced the modalities of narration as employed by Johnson. The central issue of Jacques Derridaʼs Prague lecture on how a city determines ‘our’ modes of (self-)preception and how a location can be grasped and ‘dated’ in writing is put to use in order to develop a singular perspective on some neglected aspects in Johnsonʼs work. Johnson’s novel and its commentaries nils plath 179 form a diverse reflection on time, reality, and the media which can affirm its contemporaneity when understood as exemplary in contesting, by the voice of literature, the functionalization of history and its narrative.

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Článek probírá vybrané pasáže z hlavního díla Uweho Johnsona Jahrestage, v němž významnou roli hrají události „pražského jara“ v roce 1968, a zamýšlí se nad možností chápat historická vyprávění a kritiku jazyka společně (v překladu sui generis) jako kritický vztah k takzvané současnosti a k realitě minulosti. Článek ukazuje, jak jsou způsoby vyprávění, jichž Johnson využívá, ovlivněny pojetím nepředvídatelné budoucnosti a události u H. Arendtové. Klíčové téma pražské přednášky Jacquesa Derridy — jak město determinuje „naše“ vnímání a sebevědomí a jak lze při psaní uchopit a „časovat“ lokalitu — tu je využito k získání přístupu k některým opomíjeným aspektům Johnsonova díla. Johnsonů román a komentáře k němu podávají vnitřně rozmanitou reflexi o čase, skutečnosti a médiích, reflexi, která osvědčí svou současnou platnost, pokud ji vnímáme jako exemplární, hlasem literatury přednesené zpochybnění funkčního přístupu k dějinám a vyprávění o nich.

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Women as Constellation in Walter Benjamin’s Aesthetics

Remapping the Constellation of Walter Benjamin’s Allegorical Method

Cultural Sources of Verse: A Poem by Eugen Gomringer

Vortage passieren lassen: Skizzen zu Transfers zwischen Ort und Zeitbezug in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestagen in Hinsicht auf Prag