Double take : palimpsestic writing and image-character in Benjamin's late prose

  • It is no accident that the figuration of rewriting as copying is an image from "One Way Street". This apparently casual assemblage of small, rather belletristic texts - still some of the least explored terrain in all of Benjamin - is in important ways the key to all of Benjamin’s later writing, and especially that writing based on the form of the "Denkbild" or figure of thought. In what follows, I will concentrate on one set of paired examples in order to demonstrate in a more focused way the practice of rewriting and its effects: on the relationship between "Berlin Childhood around 1900" and "One Way Street".

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Author:Michael W. Jennings
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-424094
ISBN:978-3-7705-5071-5
Parent Title (German):Benjamin-Studien, 2.2011, S. 33-44
Publisher:Wilhelm Fink
Place of publication:München
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2016/12/01
Year of first Publication:2011
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2016/12/01
GND Keyword:Benjamin, Walter; Textproduktion; Literaturproduktion; Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert; Einbahnstraße; Erinnerung
Page Number:16
First Page:33
Last Page:44
HeBIS-PPN:416581625
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
BDSL-Klassifikation:01.00.00 Allgemeine deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 01.00.00 Allgemeine deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > 01.08.00 Zu einzelnen Germanisten, Literaturtheoretikern und Essayisten
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht