Reading Berlin 1900 - Rilegato

Fritzsche, Peter

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0674748816 ISBN 13: 9780674748811

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois.

Product Description:

Book by Fritzsche Peter

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0674748816
• ISBN 13: 9780674748811
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 308