The Resource Miniature metropolis : literature in an age of photography and film, Andreas Huyssen
Miniature metropolis : literature in an age of photography and film, Andreas Huyssen
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- Summary
- In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe{u2019}s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures{u2014}short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature Metropolis explores the history and theory of this significant but misrecognized achievement of literary modernism. Andreas Huyssen shows how writers from Baudelaire and Kafka to Benjamin, Musil, and Adorno created the miniature to record their reflections of Paris, Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Contesting photography and film as competing media, the metropolitan miniature sought to capture the visceral feeling of acceleration and compression that defined urban existence. But the form did not merely imitate visual media{u2014}it absorbed them, condensing objective and subjective perceptions into the very structure of language and text and asserting the aesthetic specificity of literary language without resort to visual illustration. Huyssen argues that the miniature subverted the expectations of transparency, easy understanding, and entertainment that mass circulation newspapers depended upon. His fine-grained readings open broad vistas into German critical theory and the history of visual arts, revealing the metropolitan miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 346 pages
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780674416727
- Label
- Miniature metropolis : literature in an age of photography and film
- Title
- Miniature metropolis
- Title remainder
- literature in an age of photography and film
- Statement of responsibility
- Andreas Huyssen
- Subject
-
- Cities and towns in literature
- City and town life in literature
- City and town life in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Europe
- European prose literature
- European prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 1900 - 1999
- Feuilletons -- History and criticism
- Literature and photography
- Literature and photography -- Europe
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature) -- Europe
- Feuilletons
- Cities and towns in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe{u2019}s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures{u2014}short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature Metropolis explores the history and theory of this significant but misrecognized achievement of literary modernism. Andreas Huyssen shows how writers from Baudelaire and Kafka to Benjamin, Musil, and Adorno created the miniature to record their reflections of Paris, Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Contesting photography and film as competing media, the metropolitan miniature sought to capture the visceral feeling of acceleration and compression that defined urban existence. But the form did not merely imitate visual media{u2014}it absorbed them, condensing objective and subjective perceptions into the very structure of language and text and asserting the aesthetic specificity of literary language without resort to visual illustration. Huyssen argues that the miniature subverted the expectations of transparency, easy understanding, and entertainment that mass circulation newspapers depended upon. His fine-grained readings open broad vistas into German critical theory and the history of visual arts, revealing the metropolitan miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Huyssen, Andreas
- Dewey number
- 809/.93358209732
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN56.C55
- LC item number
- H79 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Cities and towns in literature
- City and town life in literature
- European prose literature
- Feuilletons
- Literature and photography
- Modernism (Literature)
- Cities and towns in literature
- City and town life in literature
- European prose literature
- Feuilletons
- Literature and photography
- Modernism (Literature)
- Cities and towns in literature
- City and town life in literature
- European prose literature
- Feuilletons
- Literature and photography
- Modernism (Literature)
- Europe
- Label
- Miniature metropolis : literature in an age of photography and film, Andreas Huyssen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 894777674
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 346 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674416727
- Lccn
- 2014035332
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)894777674
- Label
- Miniature metropolis : literature in an age of photography and film, Andreas Huyssen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 894777674
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 346 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674416727
- Lccn
- 2014035332
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)894777674
Subject
- Cities and towns in literature
- City and town life in literature
- City and town life in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Europe
- European prose literature
- European prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 1900 - 1999
- Feuilletons -- History and criticism
- Literature and photography
- Literature and photography -- Europe
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature) -- Europe
- Feuilletons
- Cities and towns in literature
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