02793nam 2200589Ia 450 991045538040332120200520144314.00-674-03736-710.4159/9780674037366(CKB)1000000000787133(StDuBDS)AH23050696(SSID)ssj0000232950(PQKBManifestationID)11191031(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232950(PQKBWorkID)10220015(PQKB)10763041(MiAaPQ)EBC3300266(Au-PeEL)EBL3300266(CaPaEBR)ebr10314276(OCoLC)923109909(DE-B1597)574632(DE-B1597)9780674037366(EXLCZ)99100000000078713319950727d1996 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrReading Berlin 1900[electronic resource] /Peter FritzscheCambridge, MA Harvard University Press19961 online resource (x, 308 p. ) illOriginally published: 1996.0-674-74881-6 0-674-74882-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-301) and index.Introduction The Word City Readers and Metropolitans Physiognomy of the City The City as Spectacle Illegible Texts Plot Lines Other Texts of Exploration Notes IndexIn this study of the newspaper page, Fritzsche analyzes how reading & writing dramatized Imperial Berlin & anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, & transience.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.German newspapersGermanyBerlinHistoryBerlin (Germany)Press coverageElectronic books.German newspapersHistory.073.155Fritzsche Peter1959-909478MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455380403321Reading Berlin 19002035079UNINA