Miniature Metropolis - Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

Informationen zum Autor Andreas Huyssen is Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Klappentext 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 modes of spatialized writing created by modernism. Zusammenfassung 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 modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Huyssen
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2015
• EAN: 9780674416727
• ISBN: 978-0-674-41672-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays