1. Walter Benjamin July 15th 1892 to September 27th 1940 Sarah Barnard, Sarah Blowers, Abbie Bellwood and Jo Allen

10. A selected bibliography of the works about or in response to your theorist. One Way Street was Walter Benjamin's first effort to break out of the narrow confines of the academy and apply the techniques of literary studies to life as it is currently lived. For Benjamin criticism surrounds the ordinary objects of life, the texts of the time, films that are in current release, and the fleeting concerns of the public sphere. The Author as Producer represents one extreme of the spectrum of Benjamin’s positions. Benjamin attempts to use his knowledge developed in the context of historical research to entirely create a new political relationship of author – work – audience. Edward Fuchs: Collector and Historian documents Benjamin’s particular attitude towards the past. Focusing on special details for a projected future including events, products and lives that rupture the line of progress. He used this piece to advertise the principles of his project of the history of modernity. The essay clearly advocates the practice of historical materialism. The Origin of German Tragedy failed to earn Benjamin a place in the academic hierarchy. His father then refused to continue supporting him. It still became Benjamin's most sustained and original work and is one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century. Its about the theoretical nature of art in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

11. Bibliography Walter Benjamin was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Critique of Violence 1921. Goethe's Elective Affinities 1922. Origin of German Tragic Drama [Mourning Play] 1928. One Way Street 1928. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 1936. Berlin Childhood around 1900 / 1950. On the Concept of History / Theses on the Philosophy of History 1939. The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire 1938. Illuminations 1968 Reflections 1978 Moscow Diary 1986 The Arcades Project 1999 Edward Fuchs: Collector and historian On Hashish The Author as Producer The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1994 Understanding Brecht 1983 Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism Selected Writings, Vol. I: 1913-1926 Selected Writings, Vol. 2: 1927 – 1934 Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935-1938 Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938-1940