Reading Berlin 1900

Fritzsche, Peter

ISBN 10: 0674748824 / ISBN 13: 9780674748828

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1998

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l?auteur: Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Reading Berlin 1900
Éditeur : Harvard University Press
Date d'édition : 1998
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket