Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality

Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality
ISBN-10
0226519767
ISBN-13
9780226519760
Series
Hot Property
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
171
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Françoise Meltzer

Description

Finally she considers the case of Walter Benjamin, whose early interpreters, especially Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno, challenged his seriousness and originality by alluding to his supposed 'feminine' qualities of vagabondage and sloth. In each of these cases, Meltzer shows how a threat to a writer's status as creator betrays the larger fraud of the originality myth itself.

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