Reading Berlin 1900 - Brossura

Fritzsche, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0674748824 ISBN 13: 9780674748828

Casa editrice: Harvard University Press, 1998

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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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 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. The history of the metropolis and its social and literary texts provides a rich evocation of a particularly exhuberant, particularly fleeting moment in history.

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• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0674748824
• ISBN 13: 9780674748828
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320