In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual s

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The study of literature and culture is marked by various distinct understandings of passages – both as phenomena and critical concepts. These include the anth

Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from