Reading Berlin 1900
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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 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 D blin. 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0674748824
ISBN13:9780674748828
Release Date:January 1998
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"
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