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Citation and Tradition : = Hannah Arendt's and Susan Sontag's Walter Benjamin Portraits.

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Reminder of title:	Hannah Arendt's and Susan Sontag's Walter Benjamin Portraits.
Author:	Mattner, Cosima.
Description:	1 online resource (376 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10A.
Subject:	German literature. -
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ISBN:	9798382200163

Citation and Tradition : = Hannah Arendt's and Susan Sontag's Walter Benjamin Portraits.
Mattner, Cosima.

Citation and Tradition :Hannah Arendt's and Susan Sontag's Walter Benjamin Portraits. - 1 online resource (376 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the relationship of two of the most prominent women intellectuals of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Susan Sontag. While they are not commonly considered to be related figures - Arendt is mainly recognized as a political thinker, Sontag is an icon of postwar popular culture - it has been anecdotally noted that they lived and worked in the same intellectual environment in postwar New York City, where their paths crossed a few times. However, a comprehensive systematic study of their relationship is missing. Starting from their Benjamin portraits of 1968 and 1978, I argue that Arendt's and Sontag's relationship is significant in terms of the German and US American tradition of literary criticism: Both women acted as transatlantic critics invested in cultural transfer between postwar US and Germany, and they employed similar styles of citation and editorial strategies to create and inscribe themselves into an authoritative literary tradition. With Arendt and Sontag, I discuss the critic's task in terms of citational style and as a matter of taking care of literary traditions beyond national borders.As I demonstrate through comprehensive, in-depth archival analysis and close readings, Arendt and Sontag intervened with their Benjamin portraits in a heated debate about critical methods surrounding the editorial management of Benjamin's estate and legacy through Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem in late 1960s Germany. Arendt's portrait made Benjamin's work available to an English-speaking audience for the first time and Sontag popularized his prominence in the US even further. Both stage Benjamin as a literary figure rather than a philosopher. Stylistically, they employ related strategies of citational mimicry to create an intimate connection between their voices and Benjamin's, granting even unfamiliar readers access to Benjamin's complex writing. Through constant dialogue with his work, their affective and affirmative mediation has significant editorial qualities. By preserving and promoting Benjamin as a critic in the US, Arendt and Sontag created a transatlantic tradition of literary criticism in which they inscribed themselves to gain critical authority in singular yet similar ways.Tracing the relationship between the portraits archivally, I argue that their similar citational creation of discursive authority results from Sontag's comprehensive study of Arendt's work and is thus an example of critical skill building through stylistic imitation. Rendering the hidden citational traces between the portraits transparent, I show how this line of influence ironically yields a lack of credit to Arendt on Sontag's part. Like Arendt, Sontag reifies rather than breaks patriarchal citational chains. Illuminating what Arendt calls a "hidden tradition" - consisting in stylistically visible yet inexplicit commonalities - I draw on terminology gained from the current debate on critical method in Western literary studies to argue that the portraits afford a concept of criticism between such polemic poles as "surface" versus "depth" reading, "description" versus "interpretation" or "affirmation" versus "suspicion." Characterizing this critical nuance with Arendt and Sontag as related critics, my study delineates a genealogy of a transatlantic mode of close reading with hermeneutic roots and a feminist twist.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382200163Subjects--Topical Terms:

685498
German literature.
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Electronic books.

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