The title of Jan Plug's new monograph on Robert Walser is derived from Walter Benjamin's
short celebratory essay from 1929,“On Robert Walser.” Benjamin's essay, over time, has …

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 …

In the Anglo-American sphere, the last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary
upsurge in attention to the life and work of Robert Walser. Numerous ac-ademic articles …

The Swiss modernist author Robert Walser has received an increasing amount of attention
in recent years. Despite a number of early successes, and the admiration of some of his …

The phenomenon of Walter Benjamin, limited in the late sixties and early seventies to the
role of Janus-faced, problematic authority for the German revolutionary Left (or others), has …

These cloud-sopped, marble hands, this monumental Argument of the hewn voice, gesture
and psalm Storm me forever over her grave until The stuffed lung of the fox twitch and cry …

Christianity & Literature 468 to all of van Dijkhuizen's individual readings is a contention that
literature, in virtue of its artistic and imaginative mode, uniquely exercises the capacity for …

His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the
angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he …

This thesis reads the work of the twentieth-century German-Jewish philosopher, Walter
Benjamin alongside two contemporary American writers–David Markson and Teju Cole, and …

Walter Benjamin wondered what illumination and what redemption might come out of the
ruins of the secular. But at the end of his life, he did not turn to the poets for answers. In the" …