ISBN:
9780674416727
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 346 S.
,
Ill.
,
25 cm
DDC:
809/.93358209732
Keywords:
Cities and towns in literature
;
City and town life in literature
;
European prose literature History and criticism 20th century
;
Feuilletons History and criticism
;
Literature and photography
;
Modernism (Literature)
;
Metropole
;
Film
;
Fotografie
;
Erzähltechnik
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionUrban spleen and the terror of Paris in Baudelaire and Rilke -- Kafka's Betrachtung in the force-field of photography and film -- Benn in occupied Brussels: the Rönne novellas -- Photography and emblem in Kracauer and Benjamin's street texts -- Double exposure Berlin: photomontage and narrative in Höch and Keun -- Benjamin and Aragon: Le paysan de Berlin -- War and metropolis in Jünger -- Musil's posthumous modernism -- Coda: diving into the wreck: Adorno's Minima moralia.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-336) and index
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