Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 2008 at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Berlin's cathedrals of commercialism : cultural confrontations with the Warenhaus phenomenon / Matthew Lange -- Berlin in posters, posters in Berlin : mass advertisement and urban space in Berlin 1900-1933 / Marcel Potter -- Green Germania? : green space and urban planning in Berlin, 1900-1945 / Barry A. Jackisch -- Bitte einsteigen! Josephine Baker's 1928 return to Berlin / Alan Lareau -- Engaging consumption : subjection and subjectivity on the streets of imperial Berlin / David S. Johnson -- The mental life of a metropolitan dweller : George Hermann's novel Die Nacht des Doktor Herzfeld (1912) / Godela Weiss-Sussex -- Media competition : Ruttmann's Berlin : die Symphonie der Grosstadt and Hessel's Ein Flaneur in Berlin / Rolf J. Goebel -- Topographies of transport : the openings of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Patrick Fortmann -- Erzähler and Information : Alfred Döblin's epic realism / Todd Heidt -- Berlin is a cabaret of the nameless : the cynical city in Erich Kastner's Fabian / Jan Uelzmann -- The representation of Berlin in Hans Fallada's Ein Mann will nach oben / Geoff Wilkes -- Réne Trintzius' Deutschland : das Berlin der zwanziger Jahre aus einer französischen Perspektive / Bernhard Heinrich.
Series:
Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur und Medien ; Bd. 4
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