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Whybrow, Nicholas: Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin.(Book review)

Publication: Canadian Journal of Urban Research
Publication Date: 01-JAN-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Whybrow, Nicholas Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin Bristol: Intellect Books, 2004. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-84150-114-X

In Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin, Nicolas Whybrow presents his readers with a recollection of the city of Berlin that is pieced together not out of an of a...

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...authoritative reading the works of Brecht and Benjamin, bur rather from very personal interlocution of specific passages that take shape through bricolage. Whybrow commences his narrative by questioning the apparent need on the part of certain Brecht researchers to encapsulate his writings into an oeuvre. He finds irony in the notion that such a strategy of scholarship not only threatens to render Brecht's work an inert object of fetishism, bur it also represents a kind of taking that belies a very different aesthetic and political practice from the kind of...

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