Reading Berlin 1900 - Softcover

Fritzsche, Peter

 
9780674748828: 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 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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Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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ISBN 10:  0674748816 ISBN 13:  9780674748811
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1996
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