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Benjamin, Walter
Benjamin, Walter (1892–1940)A literary critic associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1930s, taken up by sociologists of literature in the 1970s, mainly because of his analysis of the material aspects of literary production (see J. Roberts, Walter Benjamin, 1982).
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