Andrew Brandel

Moving Words

Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin’s status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capital for the arts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781487543686
• ISBN-10: 1487543689
• Artikelnr.: 67614723

Autorenporträt

Andrew Brandel is an assistant research professor and the assistant director of Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Berlin, City of Letters
2. The Prosody of Social Ties: Poetry and Fleeting Moments in a Workshop
3. Exile in Translation: The Politics of Remaining Unknown
4. In the Footsteps of a Flaneur: A Grammar of Returning (to a Street)
5. Collecting, Selecting, Connecting: Making Books and Making Do
6. Life in a Net of Language: Literature, Translation, and the Feel of
Words
Notes
References
Index