Gilloch, Graeme,

Myth and metropolis : Walter Benjamin and the city / Myth & metropolis Graeme Gilloch. - ix, 227 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Urban Images: From Ruins to Revolutions -- Urban Memories: Labyrinth and Childhood -- Dialectical Images: Paris and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity -- Urban Allegories: Paris, Baudelaire and the Experience of Modernity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4.

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


Cities and towns in literature
Sociology, Urban

B3209.B584 / G55 1997

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