UID:
edocfu_9960112754102883
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
ISBN:
9780674037366
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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CONTENTS --
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ILLUSTRATIONS --
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Introduction --
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1. The Word City --
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2. Readers and Metropolitans --
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3. Physiognomy of the City --
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4. The City as Spectacle --
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5. Illegible Texts --
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6. Plot Lines --
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7. Other Texts of Exploration --
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ABBREVIATIONS --
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NOTES --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674037366
URL:
Co-access DOI click Walter de Gruyter
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674037366
