Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century : : A Surrealist History / / Derek Sayer.
The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century PragueSetting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (624 p.) :; 54 halftones. 8 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Translation and Pronunciation
- Introduction
- 1 The Starry Castle Opens
- 2 Zone
- 3 Metamorphoses
- 4 Modernism in the Plural
- 5 Body Politic
- 6 On the Edge of an Abyss
- 7 Love’s Boat Shattered against Everyday Life
- 8 The Gold of Time
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index