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Miniature Metropolis : Literature in an Age of Photography and Film / Andreas Huyssen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 8 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780674416727
  • 9780674425811
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93358209732 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Urban Spleen and the Terror of Paris in Baudelaire and Rilke -- 2 Kafka’s Betrachtung in the Force Field of Photography and Film -- 3 Benn in Occupied Brussels: The Rönne Novellas -- 4 Photography and Emblem in Kracauer and Benjamin’s Street Texts -- 5 Double Exposure Berlin: Photomontage and Narrative in Höch and Keun -- 6 Benjamin and Aragon: Le Paysan de Berlin -- 7 War and Metropolis in Jünger -- 8 Musil’s Posthumous Modernism -- Coda. Diving into the Wreck: Adorno’s Minima Moralia -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Andreas Huyssen explores the history and theory of metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about urban life written for European newspapers. His fine-grained readings open vistas into German critical theory and the visual arts, revealing the miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Urban Spleen and the Terror of Paris in Baudelaire and Rilke -- 2 Kafka’s Betrachtung in the Force Field of Photography and Film -- 3 Benn in Occupied Brussels: The Rönne Novellas -- 4 Photography and Emblem in Kracauer and Benjamin’s Street Texts -- 5 Double Exposure Berlin: Photomontage and Narrative in Höch and Keun -- 6 Benjamin and Aragon: Le Paysan de Berlin -- 7 War and Metropolis in Jünger -- 8 Musil’s Posthumous Modernism -- Coda. Diving into the Wreck: Adorno’s Minima Moralia -- Notes -- Index

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Andreas Huyssen explores the history and theory of metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about urban life written for European newspapers. His fine-grained readings open vistas into German critical theory and the visual arts, revealing the miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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