On 'Shock:' The Artistic Imagination of Benjamin and Brecht
“Shock” is perhaps the central concept of modernist aesthetics and Walter Benjamin its best known theorist. It has been well documented that Benjamin’s long-lasting friendship with Bertolt Brecht and the latter’s dramatic theory had a profound influence on his thinking about this notion. Brecht�...
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Contemporary Aesthetics, Inc.
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Contemporary Aesthetics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=659 |