TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fritzsche,Peter
TI  - Reading Berlin 1900
SN  - 9780674037366
AV  - PN5219.B59 ǂb F75 1996eb 
U1  - 073.155 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Germany
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; 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 --; ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037366?locatt=mode:legacy
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