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Metaphors

Clumsy Creatures

Walter Benjamin in the bestiary of Edwina Ashton

Swen SteinhäuserCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 143-150 | Published online: 01 Nov 2013
 
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Notes

1 All subsequent translations of Walter Benjamin's original texts are mine unless otherwise indicated.

2 In an aside of ‘The Storyteller’ Benjamin notes that ‘this is how the fairy tale polarises Mut [courage], dividing it dialectically into Untermut - that is, cunning - and Ubermut [high spirits]’ (Benjamin Citation1977a: 404).

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