Character, silence, and the novel: Walter Benjamin on Goethe's 'Elective Affinities'.(Critical Essay) Posted: Mar 21, 2008 20:10:39
INTRODUCTION WALTER BENJAMIN'S 1924-25 essay on GOETHE'S Die Wahlverwandtschaften ... reading of a novel. (1) Recent studies of Benjamin explicate the essay as an elaboration ... of immanent criticism described in Benjamin's dissertation on early German Romanticism ...