| Description |
1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Word City -- 2. Readers and Metropolitans -- 3. Physiognomy of the City -- 4. The City as Spectacle -- 5. Illegible Texts -- 6. Plot Lines -- 7. Other Texts of Exploration -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
In this study of the newspaper page, Fritzsche analyzes how reading & writing dramatized Imperial Berlin & anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, & transience |
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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 Doblin. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-301) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German newspapers -- Germany -- Berlin -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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German newspapers
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Press coverage
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| SUBJECT |
Berlin (Germany) -- Press coverage.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007098
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| Subject |
Germany -- Berlin
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674037366 |
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0674037367 |
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