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The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words - newspapers, advertisements, signs & schedules - by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, & imagined their surroundings. In this original study of tat classic modernist text - the newspaper page - Fritzsche analyzes how reading & writing dramatized Imperial Berlin & anticipated the modernist sensibility of discontinuity, instability & transience. Guest stars, Wally Benjamin, Georgh Simmel, Alfred Dobbin & others. A great story, a great method in motion. |