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Reading Berlin 1900.

Fritzsche, Peter.

Reading Berlin 1900. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (322 pages)

Intro -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- Notes -- Index.

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.

9780674037366


German newspapers-Germany-Berlin-History.
Berlin (Germany)-Press coverage.


Electronic books.

PN5219

073.1/55

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