In perhaps the most provocative reading to date of the Swiss German modernist Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin asserted that Walser's figures ""have all been healed."" They Have All Been Healed takes up and extends Benjamin's assessment by following the figure of healing throughout major works by Walser, from his minidrama Snow White and his acknowledged masterpieces The Walk and Jakob von Gunten to his enigmatic last novel, The Robber. At the same time, Jan Plug reads Walser alongside his most compelling readers, tracing how not only Benjamin but also Giorgio Agamben, W. G. Sebald, and the Brothers Quay complicate, clarify, and enact that same process of healing in their own work. Working out the theological implications of Walser's work and of the tradition to which he gives rise, Plug at once recasts one of the major authors of the twentieth century and articulates a new conception of healing and salvation.
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In perhaps the most provocative reading to date of the Swiss German modernist Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin asserted that Walser's figures “have all been healed.” They Have All Been Healed takes up and extends Benjamin's assessment by following the figure of healing throughout major works by Walser.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780810132634
Publisert
2016-06-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Northwestern University Press
Vekt
320 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

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Jan Plug is an associate professor of English and director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario, USA.