The saving line Benjamin, Adorno, and the caesuras of hope / M©Łrton Dornbach.
| Author/creator | Dornbach, Marton, 1973- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021] |
| Description | viii, 240 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Benjamin's Hard Caesura: The Hopeful Narrator of Elective Affinities -- Adorno's Hard Caesura: The Impassive Homeric Narrator -- Adorno's Soft Caesura: The Immanent Utopia of Penelope's Remark -- Benjamin's Soft Caesura: The Immanent Utopia of the Embedded Novella -- Adaptations, Conclusions, Limits. |
| Abstract | "This book reconstructs a wide-ranging dialogue between Walter Benjamin's major essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities and Theodor Adorno's meditation on the Odyssey in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Dornbach leverages the concept of caesura to identify utopian moments in a variety of works"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020027631 |
| ISBN | 9780810142992 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780810143005 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |