Abstract
he topic of woman and modernity, from the viewpoint of Walter Benjamin's theory of culture, has raised the following question for me: if modernity is defined by a loss of experience, and if woman can indeed be viewed as an allegory of modernity, can one also detect a corresponding loss of femininity along with the loss of historical experience? In connection with this question, woman and her femininity are related to the experience of history. The so-called historical avant garde of the turn of the century aimed to break with a tradition of mimesis that had its roots in the Renaissance and was still alive in the latter half
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