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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778175903321

Autore

Fritzsche Peter <1959->

Titolo

Reading Berlin 1900 [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Fritzsche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-674-03736-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 308 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

073.155

Soggetti

German newspapers - Germany - Berlin - History

Berlin (Germany) Press coverage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction The Word City Readers and Metropolitans Physiognomy of the City The City as Spectacle Illegible Texts Plot Lines Other Texts of Exploration Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this study of the newspaper page, Fritzsche analyzes how reading & writing dramatized Imperial Berlin & anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, & transience.