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Rethinking Nostalgia
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- Title: Rethinking Nostalgia: Commodification Theory in Terms of the Allegory versus Symbol Debate
- Author(s): Mike Sugimoto
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: Common Ground Open
- Journal Title: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
- Keywords: Aesthetics, Walter Benjamin, Modernity, Georg Lukács, Postmodernism
- Volume: 16
- Issue: 1
- Date: October 26, 2018
- ISSN: 1447-9508 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9559 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v16i01/11-24
- Citation: Sugimoto, Mike. 2018. "Rethinking Nostalgia: Commodification Theory in Terms of the Allegory versus Symbol Debate." The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 16 (1): 11-24. doi:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v16i01/11-24.
- Extent: 14 pages
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Abstract
This article reappraises commodification theory in light of literary-aesthetic categories, specifically, allegory vs symbol, as analyzed in Walter Benjamin’s criticism on German drama. As a larger framework of a modernity critique, the symbolic theory of Georg Lukács is read against the allegorical, critical impulse of Walter Benjamin.
