Reading Berlin 1900 / / Peter Fritzsche.
The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes...
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Übergeordnet: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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Ort / Verlag: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1996 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Weitere Titel: | Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction -- 1. The Word City -- 2. Readers and Metropolitans -- 3. Physiognomy of the City -- 4. The City as Spectacle -- 5. Illegible Texts -- 6. Plot Lines -- 7. Other Texts of Exploration -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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Zusammenfassung: | The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience. It is a sharp-edged story with cameo appearances by Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, and Alfred Döblin. This sumptuous history of a metropolis and its social and literary texts provides a rich evocation of a particularly exuberant and fleeting moment in history. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674037366 9783110442212 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674037366?locatt=mode:legacy |
Zugangseinschränkungen: | restricted access |
Hierarchiestufe: | Monografie |
Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Peter Fritzsche. |