Allegory, noise, and history: the Arcades Project looks back at the Trauerspielbuch. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Villegas Vélez, Daniel
• Is Part Of: New writing. Volume 16:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 429
• Page End: 432
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Sound -- baroque -- Trauerspiel -- opera -- Claudio Monteverdi -- materiality -- historicity; Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 808.042071
• DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2019.1567795
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1479-0726

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In Convolute N, Benjamin claims that both the Arcades Project and the Trauerspielbuch reject a historiography based on the notion of periods of decline. Reflecting on the sonorous dimension of the dialectical image as presented in Convolute N, I suggest allegory as another link between the two works, which I explore in connection to sound and noise through an example from Monteverdi's Orfeo while remarking on the role of sound in Benjamin.