The redemption of things: collecting and dispersal in German realism and modernism

"This book locates the paradoxical process of collecting (as an activity that necessarily involves displacement and dispersal) in the ways nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language literature (and in one case, cinema) attempts to represent ephemeral, discarded, and trivial things"-...

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Main Author: Frederick, Samuel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] ; London Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library 2021
Series:Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought
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Summary:"This book locates the paradoxical process of collecting (as an activity that necessarily involves displacement and dispersal) in the ways nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language literature (and in one case, cinema) attempts to represent ephemeral, discarded, and trivial things"--
Physical Description:xii, 330 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781501761560
9781501761553

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