Miniature metropolis : literature in an age of photography and film /

Andreas Huyssen explores the history and theory of metropolitan miniatures--short prose pieces about urban life written for European newspapers. His fine-grained readings open vistas into German critical theory and the visual arts, revealing the miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Huyssen, Andreas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
European prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Feuilletons > History and criticism.
Literature and photography > Europe.
Modernism (Literature) > Europe.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Prose européenne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Feuilletons > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et photographie > Europe.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Europe.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Cities and towns in literature
City and town life in literature
European prose literature
Feuilletons
Literature and photography
Modernism (Literature)
Europe
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Urban 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
  • 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.

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