Publication

2015 - Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

86,000 words, Guess

Page Count

344 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC809/.933553
  • LCCPT405 .K6254 2015
  • LCCPT405.K6254 2015

Alternate Titles

  • Tales of commerce and imagination

Description

Until the 1930s department stores provided, in Germany as elsewhere, one of the focal points of cultural and critical engagement with modernity and consumer culture. The authors of this volume explore the diversity of the discourse on department stores in literature, the feuilleton, musicals and film. They demonstrate the scope of the discourse from cultural criticism to more progress-oriented examinations of the theme. Novels by Zola, Brecht and Fallada are discussed, as well as writings by lesser known authors. Attention is paid to the emancipatory potential of department stores as well as to the aesthetics of consumption as reflected in literature, film and other media --

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