The Storyteller (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Benjamin
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, History, Authors or writers, Literature, Storytelling, Oral history, Progress
Form and Content
Walter Benjamin is something of an anomaly in an era of literary criticism when every significant critic is the author of some major work and seems to “belong” to some unified theoretical school or another. Benjamin, a German-Jewish intellectual who committed suicide during the Nazi persecution, is primarily known as the author only of a number of essay-length studies which have been edited since his death. Moreover, although he did some writing in the late 1930’s in connection with the so-called Frankfurt School, established in Germany for the...
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