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Book Title: Walter Benjamin's Concept Of The Image
Number of Pages: 164 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Criticism & Theory, General, Criticism, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Art, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Author: Alison Ross
Item Length: 9.1 in
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
