LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Question
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Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____’s work.
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Marx
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Freud
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Darwin
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Aristotle
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Among Benjamin’s best known works are the essays “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935), and “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1940). His major work as a literary critic included essays on Baudelaire, Goethe, Kafka, Kraus, Leskov, Proust, Walser, and translation theory.
Detailed explanation-2: -This paper examines the peculiar essayistic style of Walter Benjamin. All of the various genres of his writing have an allegorical and surrealistic quality, with hidden and private (and essayistic) meanings, but also with a prophetic, hallucinatory tension.
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