TY  - CHAP
A1  - Merte-Rankin, Angela
T1  - Dante's "Inferno" and Walter Benjamin's cities : considerations of place, experience, and media
T2  - Metamorphosing Dante : appropriations, manipulations, and rewritings in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart ; Cultural Inquiry ; 2
N2  - When Walter Benjamin wrote his main texts, the theme of the city as hell was extremely popular. Some of his German contemporaries, such as Brecht or Döblin, also used it. Benjamin was aware of these examples, as well as of examples outside Germany, including Joyce's "Ulysses" and Baudelaire's "poetry". And he was - at least in some way - familiar with Dante's "Inferno" and used it, and in particular Dante's conception of hell, for his own purposes. Benjamin's appropriation of the topos of the Inferno has been seen as a critique of capitalism and as a general critique of modernism by means of allegory. In the following analysis, Angela Merte-Rankin takes a slightly different approach and, despite Benjamin's status as an expert on allegory, considers hell in its literal sense as a place and examines the issues of implacement that might follow from this standpoint.
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - Productive reception
KW  - Eschatology
KW  - Hell (theology)
KW  - Inferno
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Benjamin, Walter
KW  - Hölle <Motiv>
KW  - Stadt <Motiv>
KW  - Topografie
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51632
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-516321
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-02/merte-rankin_benjamin_s-cities.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-617-8
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 77
EP  - 87
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -