This thinker opened with an example of the clerk Shuvalkin soliciting a signature from Potemkin while the latter was mad in an essay dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka. The interruption, the untragic hero, and the quotable gesture are all components of the title literary form according to this man's essay "What is Epic Theater?" and his discussion of Nikolai Leskov is contained in his "The Storyteller." This man's most famous essay ends with multiple citations of Marinetti and bemoans the "situation of politics that Fascism is rendering aesthetic;" that works topics include photography and film, which both "change the reaction of the masses towards art." For ten points, identify this writer and social critic whose
This thinker opened with an example of the clerk Shuvalkin soliciting a signature from Potemkin while the latter was mad in an essay dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka. The interruption, the untragic hero, and the quotable gesture are all components of the title literary form according to this man's essay "What is Epic Theater?" and his discussion of Nikolai Leskov is contained in his "The Storyteller." This man's most famous essay ends with multiple citations of Marinetti and bemoans the "situation of politics that Fascism is rendering aesthetic;" that works topics include photography and film, which both "change the reaction of the masses towards art." For ten points, identify this writer and social critic whose essays are collected in Illuminations and include "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
This thinker opened with an example of the clerk Shuvalkin soliciting a signature from Potemkin while the latter was mad in an essay dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka.
Walter Benjamin