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Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller | Esther Leslie & Stuart Jeffries
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Analyzing Benjamin's Essay on the Storyteller and Its Relation to Social Media
This chapter explores the concepts discussed in Walter Benjamin's essay on the storyteller, relating it to social media. It delves into the role of fairy tales and folk tales in conveying wisdom, the structure of novels as bourgeois forms, and Benjamin's thoughts on the fragmentation of information in the modern world.
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