The saving line Benjamin, Adorno, and the caesuras of hope / M©Łrton Dornbach.

Author/creator Dornbach, Marton, 1973-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEvanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]
Descriptionviii, 240 pages ; 23 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020027631
ISBN9780810142992 (paperback)
ISBN9780810143005 (cloth)
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