Of course there is a small but stubborn counter-tradition to suburb-phobia, most famously in the stories and novels of John Updike and John Cheever. From Wordnik.com. [Why Does Hollywood Hate the Suburbs?] Reference
Benjamin develops this ideal of exact, imaginative, in-motion form largely through his formidable engagements with the formidable artists of the Baudelairean lyric counter-tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics] Reference
6 For sustained treatment of Frankfurt-School analyses of the Baudelairean counter-tradition in modern lyric, and for Benjamin’s, Brecht’s, and Adorno’s surprising later indications that lyric aura might have a renewed, progressive role to play in contemporary poetry and theory (after lyric's apparent supervention by mechanical-technical reproduction or reproducibility), see Kaufman, "Aura, Still." close window. From Wordnik.com. [Notes, "Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics", Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics] Reference
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