TY - CHAP A1 - Menke, Bettine A2 - Richter, Gerhard T1 - Ornament, Constellation, Flurries T2 - Benjamin's ghosts : interventions in contemporary literary and cultural theory / ed. by Gerhard Richter N2 - My point of departure is Benjamin's "Lehre vom Ähnlichen," since this text elaborates a theory of reading and writing based on the concept of "nonsensory similarity." The "strange ambiguity of the word reading in relation to both its profane and its magical meaning", which is often cited in Benjamin criticism, is derived from a precise figure, namely the constellation as a model for writing and the concomitant practices of anagrammatical dispersion. KW - Benjamin, Walter KW - Schreiben KW - Ornament Y1 - 2002 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37731 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-377312 UR - https://www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/public-docs/Literaturwissenschaft/avl/Menke/Menke_Bettine_Ornament__Constellation__Flurries.pdf SN - 0-8047-4126-3 SP - 260 EP - 277 PB - Stanford Univ. Press CY - Stanford, Calif. ER -