Reading Berlin 1900 (Paperback)

Peter Fritzsche

ISBN 10: 0674748824 / ISBN 13: 9780674748828

Edité par Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1998

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Paperback. 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 Doeblin. 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. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernismthe newspaper pagePeter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Reading Berlin 1900 (Paperback)
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674748824
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674748828
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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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.