The bells in their silence : travels through Germany / Michael Gorra.
The bells in their silence : travels through Germany / Michael Gorra.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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N914.304/8
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English
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xvii, 211 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Preface : the wanderer above the sea of fog -- Ch. 1. Cultural capital -- Ch. 2. The peculiarities of German travel -- Ch. 3. Visible cities -- Ch. 4. The dentist's house -- Ch. 5. Fragments and disgressions -- Ch. 6. Hauptstadt -- Ch. 7. Family chronicles.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2004.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2004.
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"Michael Gorra uses Goethe's account of his Italian journey as a model for testing the traveler's response to Germany today, and he subjects the shopping arcades of contemporary German cities to the terms of Benjamin's Arcades project. He reads post-Wende Berlin through the novels of Theodor Fontane, examines the role of figurative language, and en...
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The bells in their silence : travels through Germany / Michael Gorra.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2004.
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N914.304/8
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74Vv5rbqVWab
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0691117659 (alk. paper)
9780691117652 (alk. paper)
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914.304882
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991017740669702626
