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Underworlds, demimonde worlds or similar types of ‘other worlds’ populate the collective imagination of the early 20th century. This volume shows how literature and film from this period tended to model such deviations within modern bourgeois society topographically and topologically. To this end, it looks at a series of examples (by Döblin, Schnitzler, Lasker-Schüler, Zweig, Einstein, Koeppen, Lang, among others) from the diverse spectrum of literary and media constructions of such underworlds and demimonde worlds of that time. The aim of the volume is to constructively complement the existing research on metropolitan literature and film.
With contributions by
Christina Althen | Caspar Battegay | Sabina Becker | Johanna Burggräfe | Rüdiger Görner | Stefan Keppler-Tasaki | Wolfgang Lukas | Anne-Rose Meyer | Barbara Neymeyr | Irmgard Nickel-Bacon | Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth | Dominik Orth | Michael Scheffel | Alexander Wagner | Antonius Weixler | Klaus Wieland